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Now dragging into a fourth month, the grocery workers' strike in southern California has brought picketers to the threadbare ends of their resources, and some estimates set the losses of store owners in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Businesses that rely on access to the stores have suffered as well.
But where some executives might see only a catastrophe, 15-year-old Katie Barth sees a marketing opportunity. She has set a goal of selling 500 boxes of Girl Scout cookies this year, and she thinks she can do it, partly because she has a captive market.
"Every year, when I sell at school, usually people's excuse is that they're going to buy the cookies at the grocery store," Katie says. "They can't say that this year, and more people have been buying from me than usual."
Until now, Girl Scout leaders in southern California have considered access to grocery stores crucial to their annual cookie sale. The region's scattered neighborhoods and car culture typically don't lend themselves to door-to-door tactics, and most civic activities - from petition-gathering to school fundraisers to the Girl Scout cookie sale - center on store entrances.
Last year, nearly one-quarter of cookie sales in Los Angeles took place at store-front tables. But Girl Scout leaders didn't want to appear to be taking sides in the strike or embroiling the girls in picket-line conflicts. So, this year, they're avoiding the stores.
Another member of Katie's Troop 370, Sarah Valdez, says she's been searching for alternative locations, stores that are not affiliated with the major grocery chains targeted in the strike - Vons, Ralphs, and Albertsons.
Not being able to go back to the familiar spots "was a bummer" at first, she says, but she's found that other businesses are receptive.
Compared with other obstacles the scouts have faced in the past, the strike is relatively minor, says Joannie Ransom, executive director of the Angeles Girl Scout Council. During World War II, for example, girls had to forego cookie sales altogether because vital ingredients, including sugar and flour, were rationed. Los Angeles was mostly orange groves then, Ms. Ransom says, and the scouts sold fruit instead.
This year, she says, Girl Scout troops are setting up booths at other gathering places, from video stores to nail salons. Others have volunteered to help out. Managers of 48 downtown Los Angeles office buildings have invited troops to set up tables outside their doors and Girl Scouts plan to have a stand at the Los Angeles Marathon next month.
Some have turned to the Internet, selling via e-mail, while others have hit the streets, knocking on doors with sales pitches that would be the expected way of doing business in many cities.
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TUESDAY, Aug. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Women who drink regular beer may be increasing their risk of developing psoriasis, an autoimmune disorder affecting the skin, new findings suggest.
Other options, such as light beer and wine, were not linked to such a risk.
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Boston University tracked 82,869 women who had not initially been diagnosed with psoriasis for about 15 years, from 1991 through 2005. The participants, from the Nurses' Health Study II, reported their own alcohol consumption and also, over the course of the study, reported whether a doctor had diagnosed psoriasis.
The researchers found that even relatively moderate amounts of beer seemed to increase the risk of psoriasis, with 2.3 drinks a week driving up the risk almost 80 percent.
And five beers a week more than doubled the risk of being diagnosed with this skin condition, as compared with teetotalers.
"We can say that if a woman would like to consume alcohol and if she has a family history of psoriasis or known psoriasis in the past or some other reason she might be predisposed to psoriasis, the alcohol of choice probably should not be nonlight beer," said Dr. Abrar A. Qureshi, lead author of the article appearing in the December issue of Archives of Dermatology.
But Bruce Bebo, director of research and medical programs at the National Psoriasis Foundation, feels the findings "need more investigation to determine whether there's a real connection or not."
And on the question of drinking in general, he added, "from the point of view of the health-care provider, trying to limit alcohol consumption for lots of reasons is important. If this encourages people to limit alcohol consumption, I think that's a positive outcome, but I don't think the National Psoriasis Foundation or any physician group would make a recommendation."
Previous studies have found an association between alcohol and psoriasis, although the reasons for this link were not clear.
"There is evidence that alcohol consumption can affect immune responses and psoriasis is an autoimmune disease," Bebo said. "There's also some evidence that it can affect the biology of [the skin cells known as] keratinocytes. But ... then why would it be nonlight beer, why not wine or other alcohol? Maybe there's something in wine that ... might reverse the effect."
"When we looked up the components of different alcoholic beverages, one thing that stood out for nonlight beer was the amount of protein, gluten in particular," said Qureshi, who is an assistant professor of dermatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. "When we stumbled on this, we realized that there have been reports in the past that ingested gluten was associated not just with psoriasis worsening but other autoimmune diseases, such as celiac disease."
Another study in the same issue of journal found that psoriasis carries a heavy mental health burden, with people who have the disease suffering higher rates of depression, anxiety and even suicidality.
The link was more pronounced in men, according to the researchers from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
A third study in the journal reported that treating psoriasis with narrow-band UV-B light rays may increase vitamin D levels in patients and help reduce the burden of the disease.
But the Irish authors, who reported various financial ties with pharmaceutical companies, don't believe that the higher vitamin D levels actually were responsible for the psoriasis clearing.
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Power Planning Billion Transistor FPGAs with Astro-Rail
With Altera’s latest Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) designs exceeding a billion transistors, fast analysis without compromising accuracy is needed to optimize the power rail network. Yaron Kretchmer from Altera, and Li-Pen Yuan and Shekhar Kapoor from Synopsys, outline a novel approach based on the use of Synopsys’ power rail analysis tool, Astro-Rail.
Altera sees power grid planning as a critical step in the design process, especially for their latest custom designs targeting 65-nanometer (nm) processes. The power grid must be designed to accommodate the voltage drop that occurs through the package pins, bond wires and pads, as well as along the metal layers on the die itself. With power rail planning, Altera’s aim is to ensure that the power requirements are met across the entire FPGA.
Without it, the operating performance of the FPGA will be reduced, the design will be less immune to noise, and there is potential for functional failure. What’s more, because supply voltages are reduced in line with process geometries, the voltage margins available to accommodate voltage drop are decreasing, which makes accurate analysis more important than ever.
Electromigration (EM) is another issue that becomes more pressing as feature sizes decrease. EM is caused by high current densities creating metal migration, resulting in open or short circuits. EM also causes performance and reliability degradation over time. It can be minimized by paying attention to power grid planning.
For ASIC designs, voltage analysis tools are proven on production designs. Altera teams faced the problem of analyzing full-custom, billion transistor FPGAs with a die size in excess of 20mm on a side. Such a design posed a new set of problems that challenged the way power rail analysis was performed.
Custom FPGA Design Parameters
Altera’s full-custom FPGA designs consist of a number of carefully crafted block types replicated multiple times. The blocks are connected by abutment. This design style leads to a complex power network, with around 600 power pins per block, although some blocks use in excess of 6000. Clearly this level of complexity places demands on analysis tools that are far beyond most ASIC design projects.
A key aim for Altera teams is to achieve a reasonable turnaround time for power grid analysis using fairly standard high-end computers. With 64-bit machines supporting 60GB of memory, the objective is to complete an analysis in 24 hours and analyze incremental changes even faster. Accuracy is also an important requirement. Altera teams demand analysis results within 10 percent of actual silicon measurements.
As the Altera designers develop full-custom cell designs, they must also manually create the models required to support voltage drop analysis. In order to ensure the power analysis flow is easy to adopt, the models should provide a simple way of modeling complex behavior. This is key to allowing efficient analysis to take place.
Model Support within Astro-Rail
Altera’s standard power network analysis tool is Synopsys’ Astro-Rail, which supports ASIC as well as full-custom designs. Astro-Rail offers a choice of modeling techniques.
White box models are preferred for sign-off purposes because the entire connectivity of the power network can be modeled in a block, and voltage drop results are provided on every node inside the block. However, the size of the network is directly proportional to the complexity of the block’s power network. Theoretically, white box models provide more accuracy but at the expense of memory. For example, a full-chip model of a one billion transistor design requires around 300GB of computer memory.
Gray box models use the resistance between ports of a block to support the analysis, and results are provided only on those ports. The size of the model is determined by the number of ports of the block – it scales quadratically with the number of ports.
The challenge is to find a modeling approach that satisfies the requirements in terms of memory size, accuracy and runtime performance, given the huge number of instances and ports that are present in large, complex custom designs.
Gray Box Pin Reduction Modeling for FPGAs
Measuring voltage drop by probing real FPGAs confirms that most of the voltage drop occurs in the topmost metal layers. The majority of pins, however, exist at the lower layers. By understanding the physical properties of the design, it is possible to adopt an approach that keeps the upper layers intact while removing the lower layer pins from the model. Theoretically this should result in a dramatic reduction in the model size, while maintaining the accuracy of the voltage drop measurements.
Figure 1. Pin Reduction at Lower Levels
The Altera Approach
The approach taken by Altera preserves the top five layers and successively removes pins from the lower layers. The team used a test case block to enable the pin removal approach to be validated. The designers eliminated only those pins closer than a specified distance, and they correlated the results against the white box model. By doing this, they could see how far this technique could be taken before the voltage drop error became unacceptable. They found that while reducing up to 75 percent of the lower layer pins has little impact on the voltage drop error, the technique is of major benefit in reducing the memory demands by almost 6x for the gray box model.
With the test design, memory consumption decreased from an estimated 300GB to around 16GB. Scaling these results to the 1B transistor full-chip design gave a memory consumption requirement of 56GB – within the 60GB target supported by the 64-bit machine.
Full-Chip Analysis: 3-Step Process
Support for pin reduction in Astro-Rail ensures that voltage drop analysis is feasible across the full chip. Because gray box modeling returns voltage drop values for the pins at the periphery of each block, it can be used for initial block-level analysis. A further requirement is to understand the worst-case voltage drop within the blocks.
Once the most vulnerable blocks are identified, it is possible to push down from the top-level results to perform an in-context block-level analysis. The voltage drop values for the pins serve as boundary conditions to enable accurate instance-level analysis. The key steps are summarized below and in Figure 2.
Figure 2. The Complete Voltage Analysis Flow
Step 1. Block-Level Analysis
Extract pins from the block GDS, and reduce the number of lower-layer pins to enable efficient use of memory. Save the resulting gray-box models in a block library for use during top-level analysis. SPICE simulations can be used to derive the power consumption for each cell, or the cell-level power budget is specified by the designer. It is beneficial if the power budget can be allocated within a cell in different ways. Intra-cell power budgets can for example, be based on measurements from previous devices. Separate analysis runs for VCC and VSS rails provide a combined rail degradation figure.
Step 2. Top-Level Analysis
This process provides the location of the blocks from the full-chip GDS. The top-level analysis reveals the voltage drop and EM values for each pin. Typically the placement information will be extracted using a physical verification tool.
Step 3. In-Context Block Level Analysis
Use the voltage drop/EM values obtained in Step 2 as boundary conditions for an in-context cell level analysis. This enables derivation of the exact worst-case location. For an in-context analysis, the complete description of the cell is needed, and not just the pins, which is why the original cell GDS is used.
Correlation with measurements from silicon samples provides validation of the analysis results. However, measuring on-silicon drops must take into account the package effects, and also that voltage drop analysis performs static current consumption while the real silicon will also consume power dynamically.
To enable a true comparison with the results of the static current analysis, the test FPGA device was programmed to consume static current only. By measuring the voltage at multiple points across the die, the voltage drop was accurately calculated.
By taking measurements from the silicon die itself, any error due to voltage drop through the package could be eliminated. Special vias were built in to the test chip to enable measurements to be taken from the lowest metal layer (M1).
Test Chip Analysis Results
The worst case results from Astro-Rail were 11 percent lower than the measured results obtained by probing the test chip. Temperature variations can increase metal sheet resistance by between 2.5 – 8 percent typically, and this is not accounted for in the analysis models. Compensating the models for resistivity changes due to temperature variation brings the analysis results to within 5 percent of the measured silicon voltage drop – within Altera’s 10 percent target.
The application of gray box modeling combined with pin reduction techniques dramatically reduces the memory requirements for performing power rail analysis with Astro-Rail, without compromising accuracy. Performing accurate analysis on full-custom designs of a billion transistors or more presents new challenges in managing both capacity and runtime.
This new approach, which combines ease of use with performance and accuracy, is enabling Altera’s design teams with the ability to improve both productivity and predictability in the quest to tackle one billion transistor designs – and beyond.
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Birds may use alligators as bodyguards to protect their nests from hungry raccoons and opossums, but gator payment may come at a steep cost — namely, in the form of the birds' chicks that are dropped into the water, researchers say.
For many species of birds, the greatest threat their chicks face are nest-attacking predators, such as raccoons and opossums. Previous research found that wading birds — such as storks, herons, egrets, ibises and spoonbills — often choose to nest above alligators. By doing so, these birds benefit from the way in which the formidable reptiles often scare off, or even eat, smaller predators. Such mutually beneficial relationships between reptiles and birds may be common throughout the tropics, scientists noted in previous studies.
However, there was little research into what, if anything, alligators gained from such arrangements. One possible grisly benefit that prior studies suggested the reptiles might receive were meals in the form of chicks pushed from the nests. Many colonially nesting birds lay more eggs than they can raise, and the birds typically adjust the size of their broods to fit available food levels by ejecting one to two chicks from each nest, alive or dead. Such chicks might provide the gators with a substantial source of meat, the researchers said. [Beastly Feasts: Strange Photos of Animals Eating Other Animals]
To see if alligators might reap such gruesome rewards, the scientists compared 20 alligators that lived near nesting colonies of wading birds in the Florida Everglades with 19 alligators that did not live near such colonies. The researchers focused on female alligators because they move less and have smaller home ranges than males in the Everglades, and therefore should be a better reflection of food opportunities near their homes than males, the researchers said.
To see how well fed the alligators were, the scientists measured their mass and length, and took blood samples to measure blood nutrient levels. They found that the alligators that lived near wading-bird nesting colonies were better nourished than the alligators that did not live near wading-bird nesting colonies. This is the first time that scientists have shown that these birds and reptiles have a mutually beneficial relationship, said study lead author Lucas Nell, an ecologist at the University of Georgia in Athens.
"I was particularly surprised by the magnitude of the difference in body condition — that is, fatness or health — we found," Nell said. "To put this into perspective, a 2-meter-long (6.5 feet) alligator would, on average, weigh about 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) more near a nesting colony than [one in a] similar habitat without a colony."
In previous research, scientists placed fake alligators near islands in the Everglades that wading birds might colonize. The research revealed that such birds colonized the islands with fake alligators significantly more often than the islands without fake alligators, Nell said. [Florida Everglades: Follow the 'River of Grass' (Photos)]
Moreover, this prior work also found that although about half of the islands in the Everglades with no wading-bird nesting colonies had alligators present, 96 percent of the islands with such colonies had alligators. This finding suggests that these birds seek out these alligators and that these alligators seek out these birds — the alligators are not too difficult to find, as they often lie conspicuously on land when basking, and loud, smelly bird colonies are equally easy for gators to find, Nell said.
Nell emphasized that the alligators do not appear to intentionally protect the birds and that the birds do not appear to intentionally sacrifice chicks to the alligators. "Birds neglecting a certain number of chicks is based, to our current knowledge, entirely on food availability," Nell told Live Science. "From what we know, both partners here are acting selfishly with no concerted effort to cooperate with the other."
The researchers noted that crocodilians and nesting birds are often found together throughout the tropics. As such, the mutually beneficial relationship that the scientists discovered "could be a globally widespread and ecologically important interspecies set of relationships," Nell said.
Future research can investigate whether wading-bird nesting colonies help alligators persist in places they might otherwise not. "This has important implications in Everglades restoration, especially given that alligator body condition appears to be trending downwards overall," Nell said.
The scientists detailed their findings March 2 in the journal PLOS ONE.
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For Women, a Bicycle Can Be a Tool of Liberation
April's views on why the world needs more girls on bikes was decried as sexism by some. Yet from personal safety concerns for female cyclists to the controversial topic of "podium girls" in professional cycling, gender issues and cycling seem to go hand-in-hand. We've noted before that in cash-poor countries bikes for women can literally be a life changing concept. It's a topic that Jane Modembo picks up for The Guardian in her piece on why bikes can be a liberation tool for women in Zimbabwe, as she recounts her own experiences of breaking a social taboo:
People stared at me. I heard them telling each other in Shona that I was probably an American. Cars slowed down. Windows were rolled down, male heads would emerge and ask why I was cycling. A woman like me shouldn't be riding a bike, the men said, and wanted to know where I lived so they could pick me up. I would pedal away. An old classmate saw me and laughed hysterically. Sometimes I felt like a foreigner.
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The phrase "Run the table" comes from the game of Pool, or Billiards.
In a popular game that uses a pool table, a player tries, with one shot, to hit a ball into a hole on the side of the table.
If he suceeds, he can try to hit another one before the other player has his first turn. He can continue to keep playing until he misses one. Then the other player can take a turn... and he plays until he misses.
If a player is good and suceeds, and suceeds, and suceeds, and suceeds, until he has hit every single ball off of the table, while the other player has to just stand and wait without every getting a chance to play, he is said to have "run the table" Since he never missed a single shot, the other player never got a chance to play.
So in your examples, the person has to "start winning and win every single time; if he makes a mistake and loses even one thing, the other person will have a chance to play and beat us."
If you have to do BETTER than win a lot, but you have to WIN EVERY SINGLE TIME, then you can say that "I need to run the table."
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The next time you're bored on a Friday night and considering a caper at the RISD Museum, Anthony Amore wants you to consider this: you're more likely to make a few bucks begging the high school crowd on Thayer Street.
He ought to know. The Providence native (he grew up in Silver Lake, went to Classical High School, and hung around a few criminals when he worked summers in the city tax collector's office in the late '80s) is the director of security for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, which is perhaps best known as site of the largest (and still unsolved) art heist in history in 1990.
Now he's pushing his new book, Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists, which he co-authored with the Boston Herald's Tom Mashberg. The book features a collection of stories about various thefts involving the works of the famous Dutch painter.
And for some reason, there have been plenty of attempts to boost the poor guy's paintings. Amore says his favorite story stems from a 1972 theft at the Worcester Art Museum. Two thugs stormed in, shot a guard, and made off with four pieces of work valued at more than $1 million. But, as is often the case, the criminals couldn't find a way to sell the paintings.
The artwork bounced around New England for a couple of weeks and even made a stop for a few days at a pig farm here in Rhode Island before the FBI recovered the cache and the thieves were sent to prison.
That's the thing about art heists, Amore says. The end result is almost always the same. The crimes are usually committed by halfwits (as opposed to Danny Ocean types) who think they're going to cash in before realizing the market for stolen art isn't exactly booming. The going rate for a famous piece on the black market? Roughly 10 cents on the dollar.
And that's if you can find a buyer, which, if you're some small-time crook who's used to fencing car stereo systems, you won't.
"It is extraordinarily difficult to complete an art theft," Amore said. "The hard part isn't necessarily getting the painting out of a museum or a home . . . it's difficult to actually move the work. Most of these guys don't know what to do with it."
Which is how something as beautiful as a Rembrandt can end up on something as filthy as a pig farm.
Amore, who says he won't sleep well until the still-missing Gardner haul (valued somewhere around $300 million) is recovered, believes the book is as educational as it is entertaining. It offers basic background on all of the Rembrandts stolen over the years and it sheds light on one of the most underreported crimes in the world.
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By Alistair Barr, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The earthquake that struck Japan on Friday may cost more than $100 billion, but insurers may cover as little as $12 billion of those losses because of big coverage gaps in the country’s insurance market.
Eqecat, a catastrophe-modeling firm, estimated Wednesday that the quake may trigger $12 billion to $25 billion of insured losses. Read about the latest tallies by the insurance industry.
Earlier in the week, Eqecat put the total economic cost of the disaster at $100 billion. The ultimate impact may be closer to $190 billion, according to Barclays Capital. See story on the economic impact here.
After natural disasters struck other countries in recent years, insurers have covered much bigger portions of total losses.
Hurricane Katrina, which struck the U.S. in 2005, caused total losses of $125 billion. Insured losses were $62.2 billion, almost half, according to the Insurance Information Institute, which represents the industry.
The quake that struck New Zealand in February could cost $20 billion and the insurance industry may absorb half of that, according to estimates by Munich Re /zigman2/quotes/205537285/delayed DE:MUV2 -1.19% , the world’s largest reinsurer.
The Northridge earthquake in California in 1994 caused economic losses of $44 billion. Insurers paid $15.3 billion of that, or 35%, according to Munich Re.
“Japan has a very different insurance market,” said Don Windeler, director in the natural catastrophe and portfolio solutions group at RMS, another catastrophe-modeling firm. “It’s likely to be a much smaller proportion of the total economic loss than if this happened in the U.S.”
The Japanese property and casualty insurance industry is the third-largest in the world behind the U.S. and Germany, with more than $100 billion in premiums written in 2009, according to the Insurance Information Institute.
But many quake risks in Japan are covered by the government, or they aren’t covered at all.
“The Japanese government is the big backstop against residential losses,” said Vincent Fea, a managing director at Deutsche Insurance Asset Management.
That’s partly because earthquakes are known to be such a problem in the country, so policies are usually very limited or too expensive for many individuals and businesses to buy.
“There’s much less purchase of quake insurance coverage on the commercial and industrial side in Japan,” Windeler said. “Quake is a special coverage that many companies opt not to take because it’s so expensive.”
For residential quake insurance, up to 30% of households have coverage, but it depends on the region of Japan. Take-up rates in some regions are as low as 10%, Windeler noted.
Japanese property and casualty insurers also have very strong “sublimits,” which limit the amount of coverage available to cover a specific type of loss, according to Tom Larson, product architect and senior vice president at Eqecat.
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The food that you feed to your dog must be healthy and highly nutritious. While it is great to prepare homemade food for your dogs, it may not always be feasible due to the time factor and cost factor. The next best thing you can do is to rely on commercial dog foods. To start with, let’s start with the types of dog foods available in the country.
Commercial dog foods are available in Dry, Semi-wet, and wet forms.
Dry Dog Food
Dry Dog Foods are the most popular dog food relied upon by pet parents across India. Dry Dog foods are extruded kibble-shaped food pellets. It contains only 3% – 7% moisture content that making it last for more days. Dry dog foods are more economical and convenient than wet dog foods.
Semi-wet dog food
Semi-moist dog foods contains 20% – 45% moisture content. Compared to dry dog foods, Semi-moist dog foods are more energy-dense. They are usually sold in vacuum packaging also come with a shorter shelf life and are also slightly expensive than dry dog foods.
Wet dog food
Wet dog food contains up to 75% moisture content. They are sold in pouches filled with flavorful gravy or sauce along with chunks of meat or soya. Usually, they are fed to the dog along with home-cooked or dry dog foods. They are less economical than dry and semi-moist dog food and also they have a shorter shelf life.
If you are new to dog food buying, you may find it difficult to choose the right dog food brand. When selecting dog food for your dog, make sure you do your part of the research and buy the right dog food. Market shelves are flooded with many dog food brands claiming to be the best.
It is also important to ensure that the dog food you buy doesn’t contain any fillers. Fillers are ingredients in dog food that have no nutritional benefit but are just added to improve the texture or weight of the food. Generally, corn bran, rice husks, and similar products are used as fillers. If you come to notice any above-mentioned fillers as an ingredient in any dog good, It is best to avoid buying them.
Let’s check out some of the best dog foods in India.
1. Royal canin dog food
We can Say Royal Canin is one of the best dog food brands in India without a second thought. Quality and affordability are what makes them the best in the market. Royal Canin has a tailor-made solution for almost every dog breed keeping in mind their peculiar dietary needs based on age, energy, and dietary requirement. So, If you are looking for a reliable dog food brand, look no further Royal Canin is good food in India.
Ingredients: Brewers rice, chicken, oats, wheat, cornmeal, chicken, natural flavors, beet pulp, fish oil, calcium carbonate, vegetable oil, potassium chloride, salt, monocalcium phosphate, choline chloride, hydrolyzed yeast, vitamins, folic acid, L-lysine, trace minerals, magnesium oxide, rosemary extract, preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid.
2. Orijen dog food
If you are looking for protein-packed food for your dog, Orijen dog food is one of the best choices. They are manufactured in accordance with the dog’s basic biological needs. So obviously it should do good for your dog’s health. Origen dog food products contain more than 90% meat which is 3 to 4 times more protein than most conventional dog foods. What makes Orijen dog food superior is each of their products comes with a guaranteed 30% minimum crude protein.
Ingredients: Chicken meat, turkey, raw, herring, eggs, pea fibre, raw flounder, pumpkin, collard greens, carrots, apples, salt, dried kelp, potassium chloride. ADDITIVES (per kg): Nutritional additives zinc chelate of amino acids hydrate, calcium-D-pantothenate, cupric chelate of amino acids hydrate, manganese chelate of amino acids hydrate, Preservatives: tocopherol rich extract of natural origin:
3. Acana Dog Food
The next in the line comes, Acana dog foods, one of the reliable dog food brands in India. Acana belongs to the same parent group as Orijen. All of their products are appropriately prepared to match up with the dog’s biological needs with locally sourced high-quality food ingredients. You can find Acana dog foods a litter pricier, but it’s definitely worth the price for its quality and for being an imported dog food brand.
Ingredients: Chicken, turkey, lentils, peas, fresh eggs, fresh whole flounder, herring, sun-cured alfalfa, lentils, beans, pea fiber, dried brown kelp, pumpkin, butternut squash, parsnips, kale, spinach, mustard greens, turnip greens, carrots, apples, pears, fresh whole cranberries, fresh whole blueberries, chicory root, turmeric, milk thistle, burdock root, lavender, marshmallow root, rosehips.
4. Taste of the Wild Dog Food
The concept behind the taste of the wild dog is that feeding a dog it’s a natural diet that they used to eat in their natural habitat. Taste of the wild dog foods is high-quality dog foods, prepared with meat ingredients such as beef, wild boar, etc.., contained in the diet of the dog’s ancestors. The ingredients include beef, bison, wild boar, smoked trout, etc.., that wolves prey on while in the wild.
Ingredients: Buffalo, Lamb Meal, Chicken Meal, Sweet Potatoes, Peas, Potatoes, Eggs, Roasted Bison, Roasted Venison, Beef, Natural Flavor, Tomato Pomace, Potato, Fish Meal, Salt, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Dried Chicory Root, Tomatoes, Blueberries, Raspberries, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Dried Lactobacillus Plantarum Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium Animalis Fermentation Product, Vitamin E Supplement, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Manganese Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin A Supplement, Biotin, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Folic Acid. Contains A Source Of Live, Naturally Occurring Microorganisms, and preservatives.
5. Arden Grange Dog Food
Arden Grange dog foods are hypoallergenic, which are free from any allergy-causing food ingredients. If your dog is said to have any food-related allergy, Arden Grange dog foods are the right option.
Ingredients: Chicken and Chicken meal, rice, maize, beet pulp, eggs, krill, yeast, whole linseed, minerals, prebiotic FOS, prebiotic MOS, yucca extract, glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin, cranberries, nucleotides.
6. Drools Dog Food
Drools is a prominent Indian dog food brand renowned for products of premium quality with great affordability. They are the best value for money when it comes to the quality of dog food. It makes them one of the best dog food in India for budget buyers.
Ingredients: Chicken, Eggs, Corn, Rice, Wheat, Corn gluten meal, Fish oil, Soya oil, Corn oil, Lecithin, Essential amino acids, Minerals, Vitamins, Salt and anti-oxidants
7. Wag and Love dog food
Wag and Love is another well-known dog food brand in India that positioned itself in the premium dog food segment. Their dog products are manufactured with high-quality human-grade food ingredients, abiding by international quality standards. It is one of the grain-free, low glycemic dog food in India offering all-around nutrition to your dog.
Ingredients: Chicken, Fruits, Vegetables & Exotic Herbs, Natural Anti-oxidants, Pure Norwegian Salmon Oil, Nutritional Additives: Glucosamine, Chondroitin, Chelated Minerals, Prebiotics, Yucca Extract, L-Carnitine, and Taurine.
8. Hill’s Science Diet Dog food
Hills Pet is a very unique dog food company that claims to scientifically innovating dog food, while most dog brands endorse natural dog food in the advertisement. All the products they have been manufacturing will be consistent in quality and nutrition. So most veterinarians recommend Hills Pet as a prescription diet for illness and nutrition deficiency. Ultimately It is one of the best dog food brands in India.
Ingredients: Chicken and Chicken meal, Barley, Wheat, Corn, Sorghum, Cornmeal, Soybean Meal, Rice, Chicken Liver Flavor, Dried Beet Pulp, Soybean Oil, Pork Flavor, Lactic Acid, Calcium Carbonate, Flaxseed, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Iodized Salt, vitamins, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Taurine, minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), Oat Fiber, Mixed Tocopherols for freshness, Natural Flavors, Beta-Carotene, Apples, Broccoli, Carrots, Cranberries, Green Peas.
9. Pedigree dog food
Pedigree is the first name that will pop up in people’s minds while thinking of dog food in India. Pedigree is a well-known dog food brand in India. It is value for money with satisfactory quality. Pedigree is also known as budget dog food in India. If you are looking for affordable dog food, pedigree is the one. Pedigree dog foods are the most preferred option for dog rescuers and rescue homes as they are very affordable that enables rescuers to buy them in larger quantities to feed a large number of rescued dogs.
Ingredients: Corn, Animal fats, Beet pulp, Meat and Bone meal, brewers rice, vegetable oil, corn, and gluten meal.
10. Himalaya Dog food
Himalaya dog food is a product by a well-known Indian brand. Himalaya’s product for humans is highly regarded, their dog food products are a little lower in fame. As far as their dog food products are concerned, they are pretty appreciative of satisfactory quality. There are more positive reviews coming from the dog owners who buy Himalaya dog food them.
Ingredients: Poultry, Meat and Meat Products, Vegetable Oil, Taste Enhancer, Maize Gluten Meal, Carrot Powder, Calcium Phosphate, Sodium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Guduchi (Tinospora Cordifolia), Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus Excelsa), Popala (Aerva Lanata), Vitamins, Potassium Chloride, Permitted Antioxidants, Minerals, Zinc Sulphate and Permitted Preservatives.
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There are at least two other books with similar titles to The City of Tomorrow – the English translation of Le Corbusier’s manifesto-like Urbanisme of 1929, and Peter Hall’s magisterial planning history of 1996. This one is more like the former than the latter, which is to say that it is more a manifesto than a history. It promotes, on the one hand, the work of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Senseable City Laboratory, and on the other it exercises what the authors call “futurecraft” in which they “posit future scenarios, entertain their consequences and exigencies and share the results widely”. Well, “futurecraft” is just a fancy name for “thinking”. But no matter – this breezy synthesis of (big-) data-oriented urban trends and their consequences for urban life is very good. If you need a straightforward, short introduction to this area, this is the one.
Rather than a collection of monuments, the book imagines the city as a set of responsive systems overlapping with, and including, its inhabitants. This essentially cybernetic understanding of the city is exemplified by the millions of pictures of cities taken every day by tourists and uploaded to Flickr. Through apps such as this, we now know an unprecedented amount about the way people behave in cities, and it means that we can think differently about how we use energy, or cars and buildings, or public spaces. As we have seen lately in relation to the “ride-sharing” app Uber, data have the potential to be transformative and destructive in equal measure.
The book is concerned with future trends, but it shows how the contemporary is rooted in history. So the big-data-oriented rethinking of the city it proposes is, it argues, part of a continuum that extends back to Modernism. The tech-obsessed architectural historian Reyner Banham is an important presence here, along with Le Corbusier’s Brazilian disciples Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, the activist urbanist Jane Jacobs, the Japanese Metabolist group and, overseeing it all, the visionary architect/engineer Buckminster Fuller. Outside of architecture, the book is good on the work of the mathematician and father of cybernetics Norbert Wiener, the media theorist Marshall McLuhan, and Donna Haraway, the feminist scholar of science and technology and author of the essay “A Cyborg Manifesto”.
The City of Tomorrow is well written and lucid, and its account of cybernetics and why it matters for the city particularly so. The authors are astute, too, on why historical attempts to build a more responsive city – in, for example, the work of the Metabolists – were failures, and why we might have a better chance of doing so now. Responsiveness is easy to build as an image, as their work shows. But it’s much harder in reality to change the physical configuration of a building, however flexible, than it is to change behaviour through a smartphone app. The book’s concluding chapter on “hacking”, in which the authors posit it as a new form of critically engaged urban citizenship, is less convincing – they simply claim too much for it. Elsewhere, the potential of big data, both transformative and destructive, is self-evident.
Richard J. Williams is professor of contemporary visual cultures and head of the School of History of Art, University of Edinburgh.
The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers and the Future of Urban Life
By Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel
Yale University Press, 192pp, £12.99
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Wow. So many follow up questions.
1. Is bullying the appropriate way to deal with anything?
2. Do Christians only address issues by bullying?
3. Are all bullies Christians?
4. Will bullying a gay person make them less gay?
5. Is suicide the preferred solution to homosexuality for Christians?
6. If you are being bullied, does that mean you're gay?
7. If you are being bullied, will not being gay stop the bullying?
8. Are bullies really just misunderstood missionaries?
9. Should we encourage bullying in order to stop the tide of homosexuals that seem to be invading this once great Christian nation?
10. What about other forms of bullying like Amanda Todd
- Should we prevent it because it isn't related to gayness?
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Quick Tour of PubHTML5
How PUB HTML5 Creates Backwards-compatible CSS3 Flip Book?Is it possible to have an effect of flipping a page like a book for CSS3? Of course it is! It has become very popular to make browser based flash-like effects with CSS3 yet without any code. Using page turning software is an easy way to make really compelling backwards-compatible CSS3 flip book animation for your website or web app without any code. And they can also work better on mobile devices.
More Amazing Examples Created by PubHTML5
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Je abstrakter die Wahrheit ist, die du lehren willst, um so mehr mußt du noch die Sinne zu ihr verführen.
(The more abstract the truth you want to teach is, the more you have to seduce to it the senses.)
Beyond Good and Evil
The gravitational field equations, for instance in the case of cosmology where one can assume homogeneity and isotropy, involve components of curvature as well as the inverse metric. (Computational methods to derive information from these equations are described in .) Since singularities occur, these components will become large in certain regimes, but the equations have been tested only in small curvature regimes. On small length scales such as close to the Big Bang, modifications to the classical equations are not ruled out by observations and can be expected from candidates of quantum gravity. Quantum cosmology describes the evolution of a universe by a constraint equation for a wave function, but some effects can be included already at the level of effective classical equations. In loop quantum gravity, the main modification happens through inverse metric components which, e.g., appear in the kinematic term of matter Hamiltonians. This one modification is mainly responsible for all the diverse effects of loop cosmology.
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. Volume VIII Number 14 . . . . March 15, 2002
Westray is a hard hitting, moving account of the Westray mine explosion of May 9, 1992, in which 26 men were killed underground. One widow recalls seeing a bird in the house that day, and another prays that they "just bring something out" of her husband's remains. That, along with the repeated counting out of the twenty seconds of life that the miners had following the explosion is the beginning of this gut-wrenching film.
This is not an easy production to watch as the film follows the lives of three widows and three miners whose lives were nearly destroyed by the explosion. Those who lost loved ones and those who tried to warn the mine owners and government officials of the mine's danger are featured through interviews and re-enactments of the key events.
Director Paul Cowan follows the initial optimism of the announcement of the jobs -15 years of prosperity for Pictou County. Many were drawn home to Nova Scotia after years away, thrilled to be back and able to work. However, it is made clear that the Westray was never right. Following its first shift on September 11, 1991, there were concerns about the mine's safety. Those who tried to warn of its dangers or seek safety standards found themselves out of work or silenced by fear of job loss.
Cowan takes the viewer through the day-to-day lives of the miners and their families and allows them the time to tell their stories. In this way, their loss, frustration and anger are shared by the viewer. The film also goes underground and explains the nature of coal mining and why it is so dangerous.
This film is clearly on the side of the miners and their families. The viewer cannot help but feel anger at those responsible. However, the mine owners and government safety inspectors are not given the chance to justify their actions. Given the tone of the film, it is doubtful that they could.
Westray has potential in many senior classes: Law, Geography, Economics, Politics or in any subject that deals with moral issues. Near the end of the film, Cowan lists 537 coal mine deaths over the last century and a half. With the advances in modern technology, it is made clear that the Westray disaster happened because coal was prized more than human life.
Westray was the recipient of a 2002 Genie in the category of "Best Documentary."
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You can unlock your smartphone with a passcode, your finger, even your face. When the cops demand you decrypt your phone or other device for them, can you successfully invoke your Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination? Well, it depends. This talk quickly walks through the when, where, why, and how of compelled decryption and the Fifth Amendment under current case law. It ends with some practical takeaways, including "don't talk to the cops" and "stay out of Florida." | <urn:uuid:bb0f53c3-53a4-4c43-8006-0cabfc84e167> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/multimedia/def-con-27-crypto-and-privacy-village-riana-pfefferkorn-compelled-device-decryption-and | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.961325 | 106 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Sharks are magnificent, oceanic animals with sharp teeth. Let’s learn more about shark teeth and their color.
Most shark breeds have white or cream-colored teeth, which acquire a black color after undergoing the process of fossilization. Since sharks shed their teeth often, the teeth get buried under sediment and start absorbing the minerals present there. This gives the teeth a dark color.
There is a lot of speculation about the color of shark tooth and what it signifies. Allow us to take you through some of the most commonly asked questions in this regard.
What color are real shark teeth?
Teeth are an important part of a shark’s anatomy and help them function efficiently. But, what color are real shark teeth? Let’s figure it out.
Natural shark teeth are usually white in color. This is the teeth color newborn sharks have. However, shark teeth that are shed make their way to the bottom of the sea and get buried underneath the sediment. The minerals in the sediment will replace the organic matter of the teeth, and the color of the teeth changes.
Of course, the process takes a very long time, and the color can vary from dark gray to brown, black, or beige.
Why are shark teeth black?
You might have seen pictures of shark teeth that are black. But, have you wondered why? Let’s explore together.
Shark teeth blacken over time due to the process of fossilization. Sharks have teeth that are not attached to their roots and, therefore, fall off very easily. These teeth get detached and sink to the bottom of the ocean, where they are fossilized over time. This is why the teeth you find near river beds are black.
The fossilization process occurs because the minerals in the soil or the rock in which the tooth gets buried replace its natural minerals.
Do any sharks have black teeth?
Sharks have strong, sharp teeth. But, have you ever wondered whether any shark type is born with black teeth? Let’s find out.
Shark teeth, no matter the species, are either white or cream-colored. Sharks do not have black teeth, but it is understandable why the confusion arises. Shark teeth become black after fossilization, a process that takes years. That said, a shark that has been dead for millions of years may have black teeth.
Colored teeth are commonly found in the animal kingdom, but sharks have teeth that are much like humans in terms of color.
How old is a black shark tooth?
As we have mentioned earlier, shark teeth become black after thousands of years. But, how old is a black shark tooth? Let’s figure it out.
A black shark tooth is often thousands or millions of years old. This is because the process of fossilization is quite extensive, and it takes ages for the normal, white, or cream-colored shark tooth to get fossilized and turn black. Sometimes, they do not turn black but become gray, tan, or even beige.
It might not be possible to determine the exact age of a black shark tooth, but there are certain ways you can get an approximate idea.
Black shark tooth identification
Identifying black shark teeth may seem like an easy task, but it actually takes a lot of effort. Let’s learn more in this regard.
Black shark teeth can be easily identified by looking at their length and shape. Usually, shark teeth are small (around 2 inches in length) and are triangular. Some shark teeth are bigger than 2 inches, but you can identify them by looking for coarse, serrated edges that help the shark bite into their food.
Needless to say, shark teeth will vary from breed to breed. Some species have smaller teeth while others have longer ones. For instance, lemon sharks have teeth 0.75 inches in length on average.
What kind of sharks have black teeth?
Sharks are independent animals that use their teeth to fend for themselves. Let’s learn more about the kind of sharks that have black teeth.
Sharks do not have black teeth. Instead, they have white or cream-colored teeth, and it becomes black after fossilization. A common myth surrounding sharks is that their teeth turn black over time. However, that’s not the case. Shark teeth turn black once they get detached from the shark’s jaw and buried.
Finding shark teeth on beaches is a popular activity that many people undertake. Shark teeth are also quite valuable, monetarily.
Is black shark tooth expensive?
The concept of shark teeth having any value may seem strange, but it is true. Let’s figure out how expensive shark teeth are.
Shark teeth are pretty expensive, with a small tooth being sold for up to 50 to 250 dollars. High-quality teeth (which are 4 or 5 inches in length) can be sold for 400 dollars. The larger, high-quality specimen of shark tooth can be sold for up to 3,000 dollars. They are used for selling or private collections.
Shark teeth are high in demand by collectors. The price can vary according to the deterioration and size.
Are black shark teeth rare?
You might already know shark teeth become black over time due to fossilization. However, let’s find out how rare it is to find black shark teeth.
Black shark teeth are not rare because the teeth are dense and quickly sink to the bottom. Here, the organic matter of the teeth gets replaced by the minerals present in the sediment. Sharks have plenty of teeth, so even though not all shark teeth get buried or fossilized, finding black shark teeth isn’t difficult.
Needless to say, shark teeth do not easily make their way to the beach. However, you can still find them in several locations, especially on the beaches of Florida.
Why are shark teeth of different colors?
An interesting aspect about shark teeth is that they do not always turn black. Let’s learn why shark teeth acquire different colors.
Shark teeth acquire the color of the sediment in which they get buried, which is why you can find fossilized shark teeth in colors ranging from black, gray, red, tan, and so on. The teeth, once buried, start absorbing the minerals present in the sediment, and over time, they acquire the color of these minerals.
Since the tooth lies buried for a long time, cracks or plant roots in and around the sediment may alter the tooth’s initial coloring. So, what you might find is a beautiful, multi-colored shark tooth.
What does shark teeth color signify?
The color of shark teeth may seem insignificant but tells us more about the sediment in which it was buried. Let’s learn more about this.
Shark tooth color depends on the chemical composition of the sediment. Sediment which is rich in iron may produce red, brown, or orange fossils. Alternatively, if the fossil is bleached or leached, it returns to its original white color. Phosphate-rich sediment produces black fossils.
The varying chemical reactions and exposure to freshwater produce fossils of various colors. Sometimes, a single fossil can also be of different colors.
How to identify a shark by its teeth?
Identifying a shark by its teeth is a complicated procedure. Allow us to tell you more about it.
Shark teeth can be identified by looking at their broad, triangular shape, serrated edges, small size, glossy appearance, and dark color. Although most shark teeth are smaller, they can also be slightly bigger in length (up to 5 inches). Moreover, you can also find shark teeth that are gray, tan, or brown.
Different shark breeds have different teeth lengths. Therefore, identifying them is a lot more difficult than you may think. Further, it is easy to confuse them with other fossils found along river beds.
Shark teeth can be found nearly anywhere on Earth. Black shark teeth are most often found in sedimentary rock, which is present near river beds, sandpits, and beaches. You may also find fossilized shark teeth near kaolin or phosphate pits.
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Iron Ore Mining Processing Method,Iron Ore Crusher In Iron mining process, iron ores are rocks and mineral deposits from which metallic metal may be.
Processing of Magnetite Iron Ores Comparing Grinding. Processing of Magnetite Iron Ores - Comparing Grinding Options. Although the majority of current steel production is supported by iron ore sourced from high grade haemetite deposits, the long-term growing demand for steel has led to higher raw material prices and opened the way for many new magnetite deposits to also be developed.
Iron ore is converted into various types of iron through several processes. The most common process is the use of a blast furnace to produce pig iron which is about 92-94 iron and 3-5 carbon with smaller amounts of other elements.
Extraction of Iron, Iron Mining, Iron Ore Processing. As one of the earliest, most widely used metals in the world, iron ore is an important raw material for iron and steel production. At present, iron ore resources are decreasing day by day, which is characterized by lean ore than rich ore, associated ore and complex ore composition.
Production Process of Iron Ore. Generally, the processing of iron ore needs several processing stages, including crushing, grinding, ore beneficiation, concentrating, drying, etc. The equipments for iron ore beneficiation is consisted of Jaw Crusher, Ball Mill，Classifier, Magnetic Separator, Flotation Machine, Concentrator Machine and Dryer.
Jul 11, 2018 The iron ore production has significantly expanded in recent years, owing to increasing steel demands in developing countries. However, the content of iron in ore deposits has deteriorated and low-grade iron ore has been processed. The fines resulting from the concentration process must be agglomerated for use in iron and steelmaking. This chapter shows the status of the pelletizing process.
Different siderite has different iron ore processing methods. The extraction of iron from single siderite with coarse grain size is suitable to be treated with single gravity separation, single strong magnetic separation and combined process including two kinds of iron ore processing technologies.
Robust solutions for tough conditions. The harsh environment and varied bulk material sizes in iron ore mining and processing demand technology that’s both durable and can be adjusted to your unique needs. Working in close partnership with the world’s largest iron ore producers over the past 20+ years, we’ve developed a range of solutions.
Mar 14, 2014 Processing of the ore ranges from simple crushing and screening and separating various size fractions of the ore to the processes that beneficiate or upgrade the quality of the iron ore products. This is done by physical processes, which remove impurities by difference in particle density or size gravity or size separation.
The iron ore processing flowsheet is consists of two processes Dry Processing and Wet Processing. The primary beneficiation plant consists of only a jaw crusher and from there the material is transferred to the secondary plant via conveyor belt method. The main objective of the primary beneficiation plant is the crushing of the ROM from the.
However, LKAB is a leading manufacturer of highly refined iron ore pellets and is thus able to operate reasonably economically. About 83 of their iron ore goes into the processing and production of pellets. However, in 2014 and 2015, the company‘s operational result collapsed due to iron ore price erosion, and the company went into the red.
Iron ore is the key raw material for steel production enterprises. Generally, iron ore with a grade of less than 50 needs to be processed before smelting and utilization. After crushing, grinding, magnetic separation, flotation, and gravity separation, etc., iron is gradually selected from the natural iron ore.
Direct reduction, in which iron ores are reduced at temperatures below the metal’s melting point, had its origin in such experiments as the Wiberg-Soderfors process introduced in Sweden in 1952 and the HyL process introduced in Mexico in 1957.
The course is designed to explain what the users of iron ore are looking for in both physical and chemical properties and how processing the ore can create the necessary properties. Participants will look at the typical types of iron ore deposits and how each may be processed to achieve a sellable product.
Mar 13, 2010 Iron ore is obtained in the conventional method of open cast or underground mining and conveying the ore to the surface preparation are where it is crushed, washed, and transported to the smelter. Here the ore is put into a blast furnace along with limestone and coke and subjected to hot air blasting and heat which converts the ore to molten iron.
To efficiently process iron ore for high quality steel production, frequent ore grade monitoring, during all steps of downstream processing, is mandatory. Independent from the ironmaking method, the optimal use of fuels and energy during sintering, pelletizing and direct reduction of iron ore (DRI) needs to be applied to stay competitive and.
What are the common iron ore processing methods If you want to know , click here. 2020-03-02 03 03 28. 975. 0. Ilmenite Recovery by Combined Processing Method. For ilmenite dressing, the combination of multiple methods is often better than the single dressing method, which can better improve the grade and recovery of the ore.
Apr 09, 2015 Exploitation of existing iron ore deposit is the easier part of the mining operations. The harder part is to find new ore deposits and to define their extent and the iron content (grade). Exploration is the process by which the accumulations of iron ore minerals can be found in the earth’s crust.
Oct 23, 2017 The Step-by-Step Process of Producing Iron from Iron Ore. Some 3000-4000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians derived iron from the fallen meteorites (or so they say), carved them and made tools and equipment besides jewelry. We have come a long way since then. Now, first of all, pure iron is rarely available (except if one or two meteorites crash).
Jan 01, 2015 Iron ore was won by drilling and blasting . As mining technology generally developed, so did drilling techniques and the explosives used. Smith (1990) reported that the Cleveland deposit was associated with a very strong stone roof rock (known as “dogger”) allowing mine drivages to be self-supporting. However, he states that in later years where the mining had progressed to the dip, this.
May 26, 2016 The method does not use water to process iron ore, instead it transforms mining tailings – with low iron content and no commercial value – into high iron.
Oct 23, 2016 The student, having practised some of the above experiments, may proceed to the assay of an iron ore. Determination of Iron in Brown Iron Ore. Weigh up 1 gram of the dried and powdered ore, calcine in the cover of a platinum crucible, and dissolve up in an evaporating dish with 20 c.c. of strong hydrochloric acid.
2.2 Resources Reserves of iron ore deposit in India 7 2.3 Processing of Iron ore in India 8 2.4 Slimes of Iron ore 11 3. BENEFICIATION PLANT STUDY OF NOAMUNDI IRON ORE MINE 14 3.1 Mineral Processing.
Processing and pelletizing of low grade malaysian iron ore163 Кб. 2.8.2 Iron Ore Processing Ball et al. (1973) stated that, the ore loaded at the mine face is in the form of lumps whose maximum size can be up to 1.0-1.25 m with high grade ores it is only necessary for the ore to be reduced in size and gradedThis method now is little used for iron ore concentration. | <urn:uuid:1519b7ec-f5a2-4987-bde0-4ddf196a2641> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.badges-kezako.fr/15049/processing-methods-for-iron-ore.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.932312 | 1,598 | 2.609375 | 3 |
A pressure sore is a lesion that develops on the skin and underlying tissues, usually over bony areas, due to unrelieved pressure.
Pressure Sore (Skin Ulceration)
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Pressure sores result from lying or sitting in one position for too long a time. The skin and tissues need enough blood supply for oxygen and nutrients. Prolonged pressure cuts off the blood supply to tissues that are compressed between a bony area and a mattress, chair, or other object. Without oxygen and nutrients, the tissue starts to become damaged and dies.
Several factors contribute to the development of pressure sores including: Pressure—Pressure sores can result from the inability to change position or to feel discomfort caused by pressure. People with normal mobility and sensation change position automatically, without thinking.Friction—Even friction from pulling someone across bed sheets can damage small blood vessels that supply the skin tissue.Poor nutritionMoisture—This can come from sweating due to fever or leakage of urine or stool.Obesity—Extra weight increases pressure on the skin over the bones and joints.
This condition is more common in older adults and people of African American or Hispanic descent. Other factors that may increase the chance of pressure sores include: Immobility, such as being bed- or chair-boundSensory lossPoor nutritionLow body weightIncontinence
Chronic or complex medical problems, such as:
Spinal cord injury or
paralysisBone fractureSwelling or water retentionDry skinFever
Symptoms of a pressure sore may include: Skin tissue that feels firm or boggyLocal redness, warmth, tenderness, or swellingReddish or purplish skin discoloration, often over a bony areaPain or itching of the skinBlistering, sores, skin breakdown, or drainage
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Pressure sores are staged according to the depth and tissues that are involved.
Your bodily fluids may be tested. This can be done with: Wound cultureBlood tests
Images may be taken of your bodily structures. This can be done with: X-rayBone scan
Treatment aims to relieve pressure on the area, heal the wound, avoid complications, and prevent future pressure sores. In many cases, a caregiver will provide care for your pressure sores.
Avoid placing any weight or pressure on the wound.Change position at least every 2 hours, around the clock.Maintain good body alignment.Make sure bedclothes are clean and without wrinkles.If needed, use a special mattress.
Clean soiled skin after each bowel movement and urination. Wash with mild soap and warm water. Rinse well. Pat dry. Do not rub. Apply lotion as advised.
You or your caregiver will be taught how to tend to the wound. Some basic instructions include: Clean the sore, remove dead tissue, and apply a dressing.Do not put anything else on the sore.Wash hands before and after performing wound care. Wear disposable gloves.Clean the wound every time the bandage is changed.You may need to take pain medication a half hour or hour before dressing changes.
Eat a well-balanced meal. Your doctor may recommend vitamins, minerals, or supplements.
The doctor may surgically remove dead tissue. Skin grafts may be needed. In some situations, electrotherapy may be used to stimulate blood flow and promote healing.
Phototherapy using ultraviolet light may have some benefits when used in combination with other treatments. In some, it has been shown to reduce healing time.
Most pressure sores can be prevented. Suggestions include:
Follow these tips when repositioning:
Change position in bed at least every 2 hours or, in a wheelchair, at least hourly. If you are able to move yourself, shift position every 15 minutes.Maintain good body alignment.Talk to your doctor about whether you should elevate the head of your bed.Find a sitting or lying position that is 30° toward one side or the other, but not squarely on the hip.Place a pillow under your calves to keep the heels off the mattress.Place a pillow between the knees.Do not use donut-ring cushions, which can cut off circulation.
Talk to the doctor about using:
A special foam mattress designed to reduce the risk of pressure soresA mechanical mattress or overlay that inflates and deflates to change the pressure on the bodySheepskin overlayUse a special cushion for a wheelchair.Wear special pads to protect skin that is resting against braces and other devices.Keep the skin clean and dry.Do not massage bony areas.If incontinent, use a protective cream on skin that may come in contact with urine or stool. Do not let stool or urine remain for extended periods of time.Check the skin at least daily for signs of pressure problems.Keep sheets clean and free of wrinkles.Maintain good nutrition.
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Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Conference report: Second Scientific Conference of the Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century
We just published a conference report on the Global Cassava Partnership meeting held in Uganda in June. The report can be found at the web site of the journal Food Security, online here (subscription required). Please send me an email if you would like a copy of the report. Here are some excerpts:
Tropical agriculture must feed a growing population under increasingly challenging environmental conditions. Cassava has particularly critical roles to play. It is the third-most important tropical crop after rice and maize, providing livelihoods and food security for hundreds of millions of people. To address challenges for cassava improvement, the Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century (GCP21) held its second scientific meeting in Kampala, Uganda, from 19-23 June, 2012. Hosted by the government of Uganda, the conference brought together over 400 scientists and professionals working on various aspects of cassava improvement (Figure 1). The conference – focusing on Africa, where cassava yields have lagged behind the rest of the world – was attended by 260 African delegates from 23 countries, with strong participation from Nigeria (67 participants), Uganda (66), Tanzania (28) and Kenya (26). The remaining delegates came from Latin America (36), Asia (22) and non-tropical countries (86). GCP21 is chaired by Dr. Claude Fauquet of the Danforth Plant Science Center (DPSC) in St. Louis, Missouri, USA and Dr. Joe Tohme of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia.
Special events at the conference included a session on priority setting for cassava R&D. The session was organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas. Participants discussed the need for increased efforts in setting priorities for cassava R&D. It was generally agreed that there are different R&D priorities for different regions in the world, given the multiplicity of environments, production systems and problems around cassava production and processing. At the end of the session, more than 250 cassava experts filled out a questionnaire to define key challenges and research opportunities concerning cassava, identified by relevant regions and agro-ecological zones. Conference participants were also treated to a day in the field, visiting cassava farmers and the experiment station of Uganda’s National Crops Research Institute (NaCRRI). The week concluded with a press event held by Ugandan agricultural officials and conference organizers.
Differences in geographic regions and research priorities highlighted possible challenges in the global cassava R&D community. Budget constraints, for example, prevented full representation of cassava specialists from across the three regions. Inevitably the conference was focused on Africa, with less emphasis on important developments in Latin America and Asia. It would be a shame if the growing cassava community in Africa could not attend the next global meeting, planned for China in 2015. Another difference noted at the conference was between cassava R&D for food security and that for agro-industrial production and income generation; the private sector was underrepresented at the conference. Except for the case of cassava development in Nigeria, relatively few presentations covered the growing agro-industrial sector, which is especially large in Brazil and Thailand, and on which millions of smallholder farmers depend. Plenty of research and development advances show that when these regional and thematic gaps are bridged, everyone benefits. The biological control programs that address mite and mealybug problems in Africa and Asia with their natural enemies from Latin America is one such example. Another example is Nigeria’s effort to follow the Thailand model, diversifying from a food security emphasis to one that also focuses on agro-industrial production, multiple uses of cassava, markets and international exports. | <urn:uuid:71e972fc-0dfb-492b-be33-7a461998c17c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dapa.ciat.cgiar.org/conference-report-second-scientific-conference-of-the-global-cassava-partnership-for-the-21st-century/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00207-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93196 | 784 | 1.929688 | 2 |
“Pachakam” means cooking in kerala and Pachakam.Com welcomes you to the magnificent world of easy and healthy Indian cooking with a probe into the fascinating Indian cooking recipes. Cooking is not just about making food but is an art of presenting your culinary skills to those who love food with a different flavor and Indian cooking, by no means is an exception.
A very delicious dish of sweet and sour
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Grind the cumin and coconut well.
After removing the skin, scrap the beetroot and put it into a frying / cooking pan.
Add required quantity of water to the scrapped beetroot and boil it.
When the beetroot is half boiled, add turmeric powder, coriander powder, salt and red chilli powder into it and stir for 2 minutes.
After boiling the mix , remove it from the stove and add the grinded coconut, cumin mix into it.
After 5 minutes add the curd and Stir this mix well.
Heat the oil in a frying pan.
Put the mustard into the heated oil.
Then put the chopped onion and red chilli into the oil.
Add curry leaves also.
Allow to turn the colour of this mix into golden.
Add the fried onion, red chilli and curry leaves into the beetroot curd curry and serve it with rice, dosa etc. this will be a very delicious dish of sweet and sour.
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What are the different types of fashion designing courses?
Different Types of Fashion Designing Courses in India
- BSc. ...
- Diploma in Fashion and Lifestyle Entrepreneurship.
- Diploma in Fashion Business Management – 1 Year.
- Diploma in Fashion Design 1 Year.
- Diploma in Visual Merchandising – 6 Months.
- PG Diploma in Fashion Design and Management.
How do freelance fashion designers get paid?
I know designers who charge anywhere between $20 to $150/hour. Again, it depends on your experience, location, project, and client.
How can I study fashion designing?
What Should I Study to Become a Fashion Designer?
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- Study a Bachelor's in Fashion Design. ...
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- Study a Bachelor's or take a short course in Design.
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- Step 1: Research. This is an inspiration board made by Manuella. ...
- Step 2: Idea development. Idea development is a long process. ...
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- Step 4: Pattern-making. ...
- Step 5: Final pattern. ...
- Step 6: Cutting the pattern. ...
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- Step 8: Sewing the toile.
What are the 4 types of fashion models?
Below are the 10 main types of modeling
- Fashion (Editorial) Model. These models are the faces you see in high fashion magazines such as Vogue and Elle. ...
- Runway Model. ...
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- Fit Model. ...
- Promotional Model.
Why do you like fashion?
It's loved all around the world as you can reinvent, express, create & stand out from the rest of the crowd. It also gives you confidence, as if you look good, you feel good inside. Here are the reasons that we love fashion here at Tooksie. We just love the thrill of shopping for new clothes & updating our wardrobes.
How do you get into London Fashion Week?
- Applicants should be over one year in business.
- Collections should consist of women's ready-to-wear or accessories, not bridalwear or childrenswear.
- Applicants should have a minimum of six stockists, including UK and international (not including own store/e-commerce).
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Most degree programs append classroom lectures with laboratory or studio experience and an internship experience. Many fashion merchandising majors also choose a related minor, such as marketing, business, fashion history, criticism or management.
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As you are doing a graduation degree in science you can go and make a career in the fashion designing. You can take an admission for the Fashion Design Degree Course. On the basis of 12th. Whereas you can also take an admission for the diploma course after the graduation degree and can make a career.
A fashion collection is a selection of outfits and individual garments that fashion designers put together every season and that reflect predictions of upcoming trends, including color, cut, line and proportion. A collection will usually include a variety of styles, from evening wear to sportswear to outerwear.
- London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London London College of Fashion at University of the Arts London is a leading global provider of fashion education at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as offering short courses, stud
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- Avoid Fast Fashion. ...
- Look for Sustainable Fashion Brands.
Fashion is personal. It allows you to chose how you wish to present yourself to the world, and allows you to realized what you are comfortable with and what you dislike about yourself. There is nothing wrong with dressing in order to feel flattering, but never hide your true self. To me, fashion is similar to beauty.
You may pursue fashion design after +2 Commerce. And after the successful completion of the course whether degree or diploma, you can find excellent placements in garment, leather and jewellery industry as merchandising executives, fashion designers, etc. ... You may pursue fashion design after +2 Commerce.
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Bachelor of Science in Fashion – Fashion Merchandising.
14. Fashion designer. Institutions like NIFT offer master courses for fashion design, which can be opted when you have an architecture undergraduate degree. It requires a fashion sense of color, tactility, construction, patterns, and forms; sure you must have heard these terms in the first year of architecture.
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Well me and Pedro, we looked at each other,
and we each said... "Okay."
And we went to the first river that came to our path,
Just so happened to be,
The Greatest River in the World, it was The Greatest River in the World.
Look into the Nile and it's easy to see
Hydrogen and oxygen make water, when bonded appropriately,
It was chemistry.
Once every epic civilization or so,
When the sun doth shine and the moon doth glow
And the pyramids doth grow...
Needless to say, the camel was stunned.
Whip-crack went his humpy tail,
And the beast was done.
He asked us: "(snort) Be you gods?"
And we said, "Nay. We are but men."
Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh-ah-ah,
Ohhh, whoah, ah-whoah-oh!
This is not The Greatest River in the World, no.
This is just a tributary.
Couldn't go back to the Greatest River in the World, no, no.
This is a tributary, oh, to The Greatest River in the World,
All right! It was The Greatest River in the World,
All right! It was the best muthafuckin' river the greatest river in the world.
All right! All right!
- () The Greatest and Best river in the world is the Nile, at 6,695 km long. Duh.
- () Pedro Paez was the first European ever to see the Nile. History does not remember his brother, who is mentioned only in a few apocryphal accounts as "that tenacious dude with the lute who kept screaming "All Right!" in Portuguese."
- () Yes, there are rivers in Ethiopia. There just isn't any food.
- () Probably an empty threat, as mummification is a labor-intensive process. Plus, he'd have to kill him first.
- () Not that coincidental, when you're in Eastern Africa.
- () Actually they were built, rather than growing. Poetic license. And they were done way before Pedro and the lutenist dude got there. Quit being so nitpicky, OK?
- () Because, you know, back in the day, yo, people actually believed that shit.
- () Something rather out-of-character for a Portuguese explorer to say at the time.
- () May or may not be true. They all look the same on satellite maps, actually.
- (10]) Actually, the Nile boasts the Roseires Dam, Sennar Dam, Aswan High Dam, and Owen Falls Dam, among others. But who's counting?
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This social business infographic was created to illustrate the social customer’s impact on business operations. It also encompasses most of what is discussed in my upcoming book, Smart Business, Social Business. The infographic starts off defining the social customer and social business. The social business declaration is defined; and then discusses the three pillars that make up a collaborative social business – People, Process and Technology. The infographic then illustrates the evolution of social business starting with a timelines showing the growing influence of the social customer and most companies’ response by creating a social brand. The next portion of the graphic covers three common social organizational models – centralized, decentralized, and a fully collaborative social business. Social business facts are also illustrated from Altimeter and eMarketer; and then the social technology vendors that I highlight in the book. Enjoy.
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Tracing their roots to the nation’s capital, the Minnesota Twins shrugged off the losing ways of the Washington Senators when they relocated in 1961 and became one of the American League’s top teams in the next decade. Later, they won two World Series and built a strong young team that saved baseball in Minnesota. From the legends of the game to today’s superstars, get to know the players who’ve made the Twins one of MLB’s top teams through the years.
About the Author
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Genealogy of the Escoffery
- Charles Alexander Escoffery Bingham
The original family name was Scofferi, of Italian origin (family tradition says Corsican). It was probably pronounced with the accent on the penultimate syllable. When John Escofferi moved from Haiti to Jamaica at the end of the 18th century, the name was anglicized to Escoffery, with the stress on the antepenultimate syllable. The french surname Escoffier may have a common origin with Scofferi since Corsica, which is presently part of France, was at one time ruled by Italy.
Eduardo Valdés Escoffery
Escoffery Veysset genealogical tree published in My Heritage.
Jamaica Family Search (JFS)
Our last name has been written in various ways, including Escofferi, Escoffery, Escoffier, Escophry, Escoufrey, Excoffier, Scofferi, Scoffery, Scoffiere, Scoffiery, and Scuffery. In Jamaica, when baptism and marriage entries were written in French, the minister would have used the French spelling of the name, even when the person used the English spelling: e.g., Henri for Henry, and Maire for Mary. The same applies to Spanish.
Haiti Genealogical Data Base
Search by "Escoffery" and/or "Scofferi".
- Stephen Andrew Hopwood Escoffery
The original Escoffery that came to Jamaica was Jean Marie Escoffier, and he came to Jamaica from Haiti at the time of the Haitian Revolution (about 1792 to 1798)! We believe he was not actually French as there appears to be a connection to an Italian family "Scofferi" from Genoa & Sicily. In Jamaica he lived in Kingston and anglicized his name to John M. Escoffery. All Escoffery family descends from this individual. His elder son was the John Escoffery Jr., who was deported (together with his brother in law Louis Lecesne) from Jamaica to Haiti in about 1825 for trying to obtain rights for the free people of "mixed blood"! From Haiti the Brothers in Law mad their way to England where they were assisted by Stephen Lushington (a Member of Parliament) with an appeal to the House of Commons and their rights were restored and they were compensated and returned to Jamaica. There are many descendants from the original John Escoffery.
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FlexTpsSource acquires data from a FlexTPS video stream and sends it to a Data Turbine server. Unlike the other NEESit source utilities, FlexTpsSource does not currently make use of append mode. This means that every time FlexTpsSource is started with a non-unique name, the name will be followed by an underscore and the next available integer (e.g., MySource_4) regardless of whether the previous source with the same name has been terminated. This behavior will be fixed in a future release of FlexTpsSource.
More information: Data Turbine Utility Document Web Page Data Turbine Server Document Web Page Click here to download Data Turbine Utility document as a PDF.
the first-time users This tool uses network communication, but new users are not automatically allowed to access network for security reason. If you can not run this tool correctly (i.e., this tool can not connect a remote server.), you can ask network permission thru “Help” menu on the top right.
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From Portraits of American Abolitionists (a collection of images of individuals representing a broad spectrum of viewpoints in the slavery debate)Photo. 81.722
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In Mercer Island, Washington "probate" refers to the process a court uses to determine whether or not a will is legitimate, thereby deciding if it should be given effect.
During probate, the court in Mercer Island, Washington will decide the validity of the will, establish and inventory the decedent's assets, account for the decedent's debts and back taxes, and distribute the decedent's property, among other things.
Wills normally name the person who is to serve as executor of the estate. If no executor is named, the Mercer Island, Washington court will appoint an executor. This is normally the person who stands to gain the most if the will is found to be legitimate.
The general duty of the executor is to serve as the living incarnation of the estate. Their job is to commence probate proceedings, and see them to completion. If an executor has to be appointed by the court, it will normally be the person who stands to inherit the most from the will, as he or she has an incentive to make every effort to avoid delay.
Duties of the Executor in Mercer Island, Washington
The executor has many duties with respect to the will. First, it is his or her job to actually initiate probate proceedings, which often must be finalized before the will is given effect.
Furthermore, the executor has to make sure that the decedent's relatives and other people named in the will have notice of the testator's death, normally through the filing of a copy of the official death certificate.
Executors are also obligated to make accessible an accounting of the testator's debts and assets, so their affairs can be wound up, along with a list of everybody who is named in the will, or otherwise stands to inherit.
Because the executor serves as the living representation of the decedent's estate, they are solely accountable for proving the validity of the will. This is a lot of work, but because executors are normally chosen based on how much they stand to inherit from a will once its validity is confirmed, they have a good incentive to see the process to finalization.
How Can A Mercer Island, Washington Lawyer Help?
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A Humanist's Conversation with the 20th Century (Isaiah Berlin, 1909-1997)
On 6 June 2009, Wolfson College, Oxford held a day of celebrations to mark the centenary of the birth of Isaiah Berlin, the eminent philosopher who had played such an important part in its foundation. As part of the occasion, Dr James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, delivered the British Academy’s Isaiah Berlin lecture, and provided his listeners with some personal reflections on the great man himself.
The whole article can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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Once the relief of being on Spring Break has worn off, what does everyone do with 168 hours of free time? Here are five suggestions for fun diversions your teenagers can do in the few hours or a day’s time. I’ve chosen these projects because they recapture the delight in learning something new because it’s intriguing or novel. (But these projects also secretly build creative and critical thinking skills. It’s like putting squash in cupcakes.)
#1: LEARN BASIC DESIGN SKILLS
We have somehow developed a myth: ‘creativity and good design’ require inspiration and genius to implement. But anyone can understand the basic aesthetic and organizing principles behind design and they should. Why? Because design is essentially about asking ‘what is in front of me?’, ‘what is it similar to?’, and ‘what could it be transformed into?’ and so thinking about good design practices encourages critical thinking. Design skills are problem-solving skills.
The following two resources give kids and teenagers projects that engage with real-world design needs: design a sports team logo, redesign the book cover for your favorite book, build a bridge with items from your pantry, create a plan for a local park or playground.
*Kidsthinkdesign (free) offers ten different design sections about everything from graphic design to environmental design. Each project asks teenagers to think about how design permeates the world we live in and how they can creatively change that world.
*Chip Kidd recently released Go! A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design an introduction to graphic design principles, such as: typography, image presentation, visual organization, and so forth. His website, Go the Book, offers practical projects and displays student work.
#2: LEARN TO PROGRAM (In just a few hours!)
Not everyone wants to be a computer programmer, but the logical structures that underpin coding offer important lessons. And who doesn’t want to show off the magic 8 ball application they coded themselves? A number of start-ups are trying to teach the necessary patterns of thought that govern programming, its logical progression of ideas, without having to worry about mastering a programming language. Being able to code successfully means being able to think through the process your user goes through: when they click on this button, what happens? what if they click here instead? etc.
MIT’s AppInventor (free) invites students with no coding background to experiment with the building blocks of coding: linking specific user inputs with specific outputs. Instead of having students write a programming language, they create blocks of code that students manipulate to make their phone talk back to them. They do this by helping students quickly make fun apps: an app that will talk back to you.
And if your teenager loves video games, there are a number of websites that enable kids to easily create interactive game play. MIT’s Scratch (free) is one of the most popular, but Games for Change also lists further options here.
#3: PUBLISH YOUR WRITING (or just write for fun)
Does your teen write whenever he or she has a chance? Has he or she ever sent anything out for publication? There are dozens of small magazines that exclusively accept work from teenagers (and even younger children too). Here are two fantastic resources: one from Teen Ink and another from New Pages.
Even if your teenager doesn’t write for publication, the regular practice of journaling improves mental health and academic success. People journal for many reasons: to recount their experiences with or as vampires (the Vampire Diaries is a show about journal-writing), to reflect on and work through events that stress them out, to make plans, to explore tentative new ideas, to become more self-aware, and so forth. Plus, the practice of regular writing helps students write more naturally on exams and papers and helps them develop more confidence in their ideas and how they express them.
#4: LEARN IMPROV
Improv has grown beyond its acting roots — while actors use improv to create memorable, one-time-only performances, it’s also used to help people become more comfortable extemporaneously speaking or learning how to tell a story. More surprisingly, businesses are using it to help their employees think outside the box, think and act collaboratively, and so forth. It benefits, then, everyone from students who need to be able to communicate who they are to a college admission committee to business teams who need to create a product together.
How do you learn improv without taking a class? Three steps: first, grab some good friends; second, learn the rules, and, finally, practice them. (Yes, practicing improv is important because that’s how you learn how to think on your feet when it matters!)
These days, we’re all over-scheduled and our kids are feeling the pressure. But when we’re always racing around, it’s hard to find the time to think — and it’s this reflection that breeds creativity. Instead of thinking about relaxation as ‘wasted time,’ encourage your kids to unwind in ways that refresh them and stimulate new thinking. Encourage them to spend an entire hour of unscheduled time — time in which each of them has to entertain himself. Remember when they were young and you cld throw them in the yard and they would do that? Help your kids recover that self-sufficiency: send them outdoors (the nature deficit is real), encourage them to daydream and stare out into space (this will help them focus when it matters), and so forth. And let them take naps — not only will make them smarter, but most of teenagers are sleep-deprived (because they need more than 9 hours of sleep each night and rarely get it).
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Preethika and I had to attend two weddings in February, one in Nagpur and the other in Lucknow with a gap of two days in between. We were contemplating a trip to Tadoba to watch the magnificent tigers in their natural habitat when Preethika mentioned perchance that the Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj (earlier known as Allahabad) was taking place at that time, and perhaps we should head there during the two free days and in no time our plans were frozen. It feels now that we were destined to attend the Kumbh Mela 2019.
For those who aren’t aware, the Kumbh Mela is the world’s largest gathering of people, and it has been taking place for centuries now. The origin of the Kumbh Mela has multiple stories, but the fact that a congregation such as this, comprising of people from all walks of life to the elusive Naga Sadhus is something that caught our attention, and perhaps the reason why we chose the Kumbh Mela 2019 over the tigers of Tadoba. The deciding factor was that this event doesn’t take place every year. Until now, we had to be happy with just reading about it in the newspapers and blogs, but here was our chance to experience this first hand and learn more about the Kumbh Mela! It goes without saying that we took the opportunity with both hands 🙂
How did the Kumbh Mela come into existence?
“Kumbh” or “Kumbha” means pot or pitcher in Sanskrit. It also pertains to Aquarius in the Zodiac calendar.
The legend of Samudra Manthan talks of a battle between the Devas (benevolent deities) and Asuras (malevolent demigods) for amrita, the nectar drink of immortality. During the churning, amrita was produced and placed in a Kumbha. To prevent the asuras from seizing the amrita, Lord Vishnu (or if you are reading one of the variations, it would be Dhanvantari, Garuda, Indra or Mohini) is said to have taken away the pot to safeguard from the asuras. During this flight, it is said to have spilled in four different places on earth, thus being the four different places where the Kumbh Mela is celebrated.
The Kumbh Mela takes place every 12 years, to signify the duration of the war between the Devas and the Asuras. It is considered sacred to take a dip in the river where the Kumbh Mela is taking place, since the belief is that our sins get washed away with the dip in the holy waters.
So which are the four places where Kumbh is celebrated?
While a lot of places and events call themselves Kumbh Melas, following are the four places which have been traditionally considered as Kumbh Melas.
- Prayagraj/Allahabad – At the confluence of the mighty Ganges/Ganga, Yamuna and the Saraswathi rivers. This is the oldest, holiest, most prominent and most attended of Kumbh Melas. We were indeed blessed to have been able to attend this Kumbh Mela last week.
- Haridwar – By the banks of the Ganges/Ganga. The next Kumbh Mela will be conducted here in 2022. There is also some discussion on advancing it to 2021.
- Ujjain – By the banks of the river Shipra
- Trimbak-Nashik – By the banks of the river Godavari. Originally, the Kumbh Mela was conducted in Trimbak until 1789 when there was a big clash between the Shaivaites and the Vaishnavites due to which the presiding Maratha ruler changed the location to Nashik. The Shaivaites still consider Trimbak to be the right location for Kumbh Mela
What are the different types of Kumbh Mela?
- The Maha Kumbh Mela, which occurs after 12 Purna Kumbh Melas that is every 144 years. The Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj in 2013 was a Maha Kumbh Mela
- Kumbh Mela, which is also called as Purna Kumbh Mela, takes place every 12 years at a given site. Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj is celebrated approximately 3 years after Kumbh at Haridwar and 3 years before Kumbh at Nashik and Ujjain (both of which are celebrated in the same year or one year apart).
- Ardh Kumbh (“Half Kumbh”) Mela takes place every 6 years between two Purna Kumbha Melas at Prayagraj and Haridwar.
How does one reach Allahabad/Prayagraj to attend the Kumbh Mela?
Prayagraj is accessible by air, rail and buses. We flew into Prayagraj from Nagpur and while leaving, took the train to Lucknow.
Kumbh Mela in a day. What do we prioritise on?
This is the same predicament we were in. Instead of narrating what we did, now having been there, let me tell you what you ought to be doing.
- Visit the important Akharas/Akhadas of the Naga Sadhus: While there are 14 akharas in all, restrict yourself to 3 or 4. Juna Akhara is the largest and oldest akhada and is a must see. Visit them first, look around, talk to the sadhus, take their blessings and then move on to Niranjani Akhara and the Mahanirvani Akhara. The fourth, if you have time to spare would be the Kinnar Akhara or an Akhara for the transgenders. This is the first time they are a part of the Kumbh Mela.
- Take a dip in the Ganges, or if possible, at the Sangam: This one is a no brainer. According to Hinduism, it is said that a dip in the holy waters will get rid of all the sins you have accumulated until now. Again, if you have time to spare, taking a dip at the Sangam (confluence of the three holy rivers – the Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswathi) would be ideal.
- Watch the Aarti at the banks of the Ganga or Yamuna: We were lucky to have seen the aarti, given that we tried to do as much as possible on that day. It is a beautiful sight with thousands of people praying while the priests are doing pooja to the River Gods.
Who are these Naga Sadhus?
The word Naga means mountains in Sanskrit. Naga Sadhus are essentially Sadhus from the Himalayas who come down to the plains during the Kumbh Mela for the Shahi Snans.
Naga Sadhus are followers of Lord Shiva, and they are traced as far back as the coins found in Mohenjo-
The Naga Sadhus are unmissable during the Kumbh Mela, with their long hair, ash spread all over their bodies and dressed with little to nothing but for rudraksha beads.
Some say Naga Sadhus are warriors, a clan formed by Adi Shankaracharya to fight against the Muslim invaders, but this cannot be verified.
How does one get around the Kumbh Mela?
If you have the time, then you could walk around. Else, you will find a multitude of battery operated autos and taxis that you can take from one place to the other. We did a combination of the two, and in spite of walking 10+ kilometres that day, we also ended up spending a bomb on the autos and taxis.
Is it too late to attend the Kumbh Mela this year?
Absolutely not. It runs until March 4th this year. In fact, attending the Kumbh Mela during Shivaratri is considered quite important.
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East-Central Wisconsin Nest-Monitoring Research Results
Birds Without Borders - Aves Sin Fronteras®
East-Central Wisconsin: The Rosendale nest-searching plot is located in a restored native grassland.
The nest-searching research at the Rosendale study site was very successful. We completed this part of our research in August 2000. We have accomplished our goal of studying birds that breed in a restored native grassland in east-central Wisconsin.
Birds Without Borders - Aves Sin Fronteras® staff members have presented results of the project research at scientific meetings and also published papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. You can read and download PDFs of publications (full-text) and presentations (abstracts). Click here to link to the Presentations and Publications list.
We have summarized our Wisconsin research results and produced a manual of recommendations for landowners on how they can manage their land to benefit birds. You can download this manual free of charge from the Zoological Society’s Web site by clicking here.
Listed below are the bird species whose nests were monitored at the Rosendale study site and their migration status in Wisconsin.
R = Resident, present year-round in Wisconsin
S = Short-distance migrant, winters in the southern U.S. and/or northern Mexico.
N = Neotropical migrant, winters south of the Tropic of Cancer.
|Species name||Migration status*|
|Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)||S|
|Blue-winged teal (Anas discors)||S/N|
|Northern harrier (Circus cyaneus)||S|
|Ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)||R|
|Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)||S|
|American woodcock (Scolopax minor)||S|
|Eastern kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)||N|
|Tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)||S/N|
|Sedge wren (Cistothorus platensis)||S|
|Common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)||S/N|
|Savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)||S|
|Song sparrow (Melospiza melodia)||S|
|Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus)||N|
|Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)||S|
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This unique Japanese garden was built by Isamu Taniguchi at the age of 70 years old. Mr. Taniguchi spent 18 months transforming a 3 acre caliche hillside with no plan, no salary or contract. He created the garden as a gift to the city of Austin Austin in gratitude for the education his sons received. at the university there.
The garden features winding paths crossing over small streams and ponds containing koi, lotus and water lilies. Other features include a Japanese tea pavilion, Togetsu-kyō 渡月橋, moon crossing bridge and stone arrangements.
Taniguchi was born in Osaka, Japan. By the age of 16 he was raising bonsai. Migrating to Stockton, California in 1915, he farmed vegetables and fruit, returning to Japan only once to marry. During World War II, he and his family were interned in California and Texas. The family moved to the Rio Grande Valley at the end of the war to continue farming.1
Taniguchi’s gift to the city of Austin The Isamu Taniguchi Garden at Zilker Botanical Garden undoubtedly has the best view of Austin, Texas
Many thanks are due Marion Alsup for her hospitality during our recent visit to the Taniguchi Garden at Zilker Botanical Garden in Austin, Texas. She greeted us at the train station, hung cool scarves around our necks, pressed bottles of water into our hands, plus she organized other garden personnel to meet us on site to answer additional questions . Alsup is vice president of the Austin Area Garden Center with responsibility for education and president of the Docents of Zilker Botanical Garden. She provided running commentary as we toured the winding trails.
Three acres of rugged caliche hillside were transformed into a garden in the late 1960s by Isamu Taniguchi when he was 70 years old. Working for 18 months with occasional help from two parks and recreation department staffers, Taniguchi brought forth his gift to the city of Austin first in gratitude for the education that his two sons received there and second in an aspiration for peace.
Taniguchi was born in Osaka, Japan. By the age of 16 he was raising bonsai. Migrating to Stockton, California in 1915, he farmed vegetables and fruit, returning to Japan only once to marry. During World War II, he and his family were interned in California and Texas. The family moved to the Rio Grande Valley at the end of the war to continue farming.
The Austin Area Garden Center and the Parks and Recreation Department could not turn down his generous offer of a garden. Working without a salary, a contract or a written plan, Taniguchi showed up for work, rain or shine, and created paths and streams, waterfalls and ponds, stone arrangements and plantings. The garden opened to the public in 1969. Taniguchi’s son Alan was Dean of the UT School of Architecture that year.
An essay by the elder Taniguchi – The Spirit of the Garden – describes not only the garden, but its builder:
The final pond holds lotus Taniguchi raised from a seed from Japan and several varieties of water lily. There is a small central island in the shape of a boat with stepping stones through the pond in the shape of the boat’s chain and anchor.
Taniguchi continued to be involved with the garden leading occasional tours. He died in 1992.
Terry Ward, bonsai master and garden volunteer was present for the planting of many of the older trees in the garden. “I’ve helped train several garden staff in the art of pruning the trees.” New staffer Robert “Spider” DeVictoria came to the Taniguchi garden two and a half years ago from Brooklyn where he recalled falling in love with Japanese gardens at the botanical garden there.
There are some outstanding maples and 21 kinds of bamboo in this 3-acre garden.
Thirty different garden clubs such as the Austin Pond Society, Texas Bamboo Society, the Austin Bonsai Society, the Austin Ikebana Study Group and other associations were organized into the non-profit Austin Area Garden Center in 1955. The Austin Park and Recreation Department owns the land. The Garden Center built the building, organizes volunteers, trains docents and staffs the gift shop, according to Donna Friedenreich, president of AAGC.
The Heart O’Texas Orchid Society donated a Japanese teahouse with a view of the Austin skyline beyond the bamboo. It is named Ten-Wa-Jin (Heaven, Harmony, Man) to convey once more Taniguchi’s message that man exists in harmony with nature and that a “garden is the embodiment of the peaceful coexistence of all the elements of nature.”
Stone gates flanking a newer slate path were a gift from Austin’s Sister City Oita, dedicated in November 1999 to mark the lasting friendship between the two cities.
“Once a year, a garden festival is held, usually during the last weekend in March. In 2013, the garden festival will be held the first weekend in April due to the Easter holiday,” said Marion Alsup, Docent Club president.
The garden recently received a generous donation from the Orton family, which was used to reconstruct an existing path to meet ADA requirements, adding a new gate at the north end.
In addition, the garden receives welcome support from the Japan America Society of Greater Austin.
The city books weddings to be held in the garden and retains the revenue. Other events are partnered with AAGC and the proceeds are split. According to Friedenreich, one highly successful event funded repair of leaking ponds with Dragon Coat.
Each year, the garden hosts several hundred thousand people. Thousands of school children are reached by the Zilker Botanical Garden’s educational outreach programs and many school groups come for a visit. It was a delight to see the school children enjoying the waterfall, lanterns, niche in the stone tea house for tea cups, resident snake, and trimmed bushes all with respect and deepening calm.
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Mother (video game)
Packaging artwork for the original Famicom release
Mother (Japanese: マザー?, MOTHER), later released outside Japan as EarthBound Beginnings, is a role-playing video game developed by Ape and published by Nintendo for the Famicom. The game is modeled on the gameplay of the Dragon Quest series, but is set in the late 20th century United States, unlike its fantasy genre contemporaries. Mother follows the young Ninten as he uses his great-grandfather's studies on psychic powers to fight hostile, formerly inanimate objects and other enemies. The game uses random encounters to enter a menu-based, first-person perspective battle system. It is the first game in the Mother series and was followed by two sequels, EarthBound in 1994 and Mother 3 in 2006.
The game's writer and director, Shigesato Itoi, pitched the game concept to Shigeru Miyamoto while visiting Nintendo's headquarters for other business. Though Miyamoto denied the proposal at first, he eventually gave Itoi a development team. The game was released in Japan on July 27, 1989. A North American version was localized into English, but was abandoned as commercially nonviable. A copy of this prototype was later found and circulated on the Internet under the unofficial, fan-created title EarthBound Zero. The game was eventually released worldwide under the name EarthBound Beginnings for the Wii U Virtual Console on June 14, 2015.
Reviewers noted the game's similarities with the Dragon Quest series and its simultaneous parody of the genre's tropes. They considered the game's sequel, EarthBound, very similar and a better overall implementation of Mother's gameplay ideas. Critics also noted the game's high level of difficulty and issues of balance. Mother sold 150,000 copies and received a "Silver Hall of Fame" score from Japanese reviewer Weekly Famitsu. Jeremy Parish of 1UP.com wrote that Mother importantly generated interest in video game emulation and the historical preservation of unreleased games. The game was later rereleased in Japan on the single-cartridge compilation Mother 1+2 for the Game Boy Advance in 2003.
Mother is a single-player, role-playing video game set in a "slightly offbeat", late 20th century United States as interpreted by Japanese author Shigesato Itoi. The game eschews traits of its Japanese role-playing game contemporaries: it is not set within the fantasy genre and only enters science fiction for its final sequence. The player fights in warehouses and laboratories instead of in standard dungeons. Instead of swords, assault weapons, and magic, the player uses baseball bats, toy guns, and psychic abilities. The game's protagonist, Ninten, is about 12 years old.
Like the Dragon Quest series, Mother uses a random encounter combat system. The player explores the overworld from a top-down perspective and occasionally enters a first-person perspective battle sequence where the player chooses attack options from a series of menus. On their turn, the player selects between options to fight, guard, check enemy attributes, run away, use items, or use offensive, defensive, or healing psychic powers. The player can also set the battle on autopilot with the "auto" option. Critical hits register with the series' signature "SMAAAASH" text and sound.
The player can press a button to have Ninten "check" or "talk" with nearby people, animals, and objects. The game shares similarities with its sequel, EarthBound: there is a game save option through using a phone to call Ninten's father, an option to store items with Ninten's sister at home, and an automated teller machine for banking money. The members of Ninten's party are all visible on the overworld screen at once, and are analogous to EarthBound's party members in style and function. Mother's world map does not keep locations separate, and instead connects all areas (akin to the Pokémon series games). The game's story begins as Ninten discovers a music box and receives the journal of his great-grandfather, who studied psychic powers nearly a century earlier. Ninten is attacked by household items, and ventures outside to find a crazy world with hostile everyday objects and other odd events.
Mother begins with the story of a young, married, American couple who mysteriously vanish from their small, rural town. Two years later, the husband, George, returned as mysteriously as he vanished, and began a strange study in complete seclusion. His wife, Maria, was never heard from again. Years later, in the late 1980s, a young American boy named Ninten is attacked at home in a paranormal event. His father explains that Ninten's great-grandfather studied psychic powers, and asks Ninten to investigate a crisis occurring across the world, the work of an invading alien race. After finishing a few tasks, Ninten is warped to the world of Magicant, where the land's ruler, Queen Mary, asks Ninten to find her song, the Eight Melodies, and play them for her. Ninten returns to Earth and befriends a young boy, Lloyd, who is being teased at an elementary school. The two travel to the town of Snowman to deliver a lost hat to Ana, a young girl with psychic powers. Ana tells Ninten she saw him in a dream, and joins the party in hopes of finding her missing mother.
After finding most of the Melodies, Ninten is harassed at a karaoke bar by Teddy, the boss of a local gang. Teddy surrenders after losing to Ninten in a duel, and joins Ninten's party with the intent to avenge the deaths of his parents, who were killed at Holy Loly Mountain. Lloyd stays behind. In a cottage at the base of Holy Loly Mountain, Ana pulls Ninten aside and asks him to be with her always. The two dance and profess their mutual love. When about to leave, the party is attacked by a powerful robot that knocks out the entire party. Lloyd arrives with a tank and destroys the robot, but accidentally attacks the party and critically wounds Teddy, so Lloyd rejoins the party. They take a boat out on Holy Loly Lake and a whirlpool pulls them into an underwater laboratory where they find a robot who claims to have been built by George to protect Ninten. When the laboratory floods, they leave for the mountain and the robot helps them ascend. On the way, they find a cave with human prisoners including Ana's mother. They need to defeat the Mother Ship to free the prisoners. Another robot attacks at the summit, and George's robot is sacrificed in the struggle. Ninten learns the final melody at the mountain's summit. The party is warped to Magicant, where Ninten sings the Eight Melodies to Queen Mary. She recalls the rest of the song and reminisces about an alien named Gyiyg that she loved as her own child. Queen Mary reveals that she is George's wife, Maria, and vanishes. Magicant, a mirage created by her conscience, vanishes with her.
The party is warped back to the top of Holy Loly Mountain, where the party discovers George's grave. Large rocks block the entrance to a cave inside Holy Loly Mountain, but are cleared by the power of Maria's conscience. The party encounters the Mother Ship and a fluid-filled tank that contains Gyiyg. The alien expresses its gratefulness to Ninten's family for raising it, but explains that George stole vital information from its people that could have been used to betray them, and proceeds to accuse Ninten of interfering with their plans. Gyiyg offers to save Ninten alone if he boards the Mother Ship. When Ninten declines, Gyiyg attempts to put Ninten to sleep. The party begins to sing the Eight Melodies while Gyiyg tries to quiet the party through an attack. When the party finishes the lullaby, Gyiyg is overcome with emotion at the thought of Maria's motherly love. Gyiyg says they will meet again and flies off in the Mother Ship. The game ends with Ninten, Ana, and Lloyd facing the player as the credits roll behind them.
Mother was developed by Ape and published by Nintendo. While visiting Nintendo for other work, copywriter Shigesato Itoi pitched his idea for a role-playing game set in contemporary times to the company's Shigeru Miyamoto. He thought the setting would be unique for its incongruence with role-playing genre norms, as daily life lacked the pretense for magic powers and they could not simply give the child characters firearms as weapons. Itoi's project proposal suggested how the natural limitations could be circumvented. Miyamoto met with him and praised the idea, though he was not sure whether Itoi "could pull it off". As an advertiser, Itoi was used to concept proposals preceding the staffing process, but Miyamoto explained that video game concepts needed people who signed on to "make" the product. Itoi was overcome with "powerlessness".[a]
Miyamoto was also hesitant to work with Itoi at a time when companies were pushing major celebrity product endorsements, as Itoi's involvement would be for such a game. When the two met next, Miyamoto brought the documentation from a text adventure game and told Itoi that he would have to write similar documentation himself. Miyamoto said that he knew from his own experience that the game would only be as good as the effort Itoi invested, and that he knew Itoi could not invest the appropriate time with his full-time job. Itoi restated his interest and reduced his workload, so Miyamoto assembled a development team. Upon assessing for compatibility, they began production in Ichikawa, Chiba. Itoi had said earlier that he wanted his work environment to feel like an extracurricular club consisting of volunteers and working out of an apartment, which Miyamoto tried to accommodate. Itoi wrote the game's script and commuted from Tokyo, a process he found "exhausting". Even with asking Itoi to prioritize the development process, Miyamoto received criticism of acquiescing to celebrity and of hiring a copywriter not up for the task. Miyamoto said that his decision to pursue the project was based on his confidence in Itoi. Mother was released in Japan on July 27, 1989 for the Famicom (known as the Nintendo Entertainment System outside Japan).
The game was scheduled for localization into the English language for a North American release as Earth Bound, but was abandoned when the team chose to localize Mother 2 instead. Critics noted in retrospect that the game's release would have been a waste of money if launched as planned alongside the acclaimed Final Fantasy III on an outdated console in a "niche" genre. Years later, a version of the completed, original Mother localization was found and uploaded to the Internet, where it unofficially became known as EarthBound Zero. The unreleased localization featured tweaks to the original Japanese version. On June 14, 2015, before the Nintendo World Championships, Nintendo released the much-awaited official English version of Mother, with the title EarthBound Beginnings, on the Wii U Virtual Console in North America and Europe.
The game's soundtrack was composed by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka. Tanaka was a video game composer working for Nintendo who had previously composed for games such as Super Mario Land and Metroid, while Suzuki was a composer and musician for bands of many different genres. The NES was only able to play three notes at a time, which Suzuki has noted greatly limited what he was able to produce, as he could not create some of the sounds he wanted.
An eleven-track album of songs inspired by the game's soundtrack was recorded in Tokyo, London, and Bath and released by CBS/Sony Records on August 21, 1989. The album contained mostly vocal arrangements in English and was likened by RPGFan reviewer Patrick Gann to compositions by the Beatles and for children's television shows. He found the lyrics "cheesy and trite" but appreciated the "simple statements" in "Eight Melodies" and the "quirky and wonderful" "Magicant". Only the last song on the album is in chiptune. Gann ultimately recommended the 2004 remastered release over this version. The game's soundtrack contains several tracks later used in subsequent series games.
Reception and legacy
Mother received a "Silver Hall of Fame" score of 31/40 from Japanese reviewer Weekly Famitsu. Reviewers noted the game's similarities with the Dragon Quest series and its simultaneous "parody" of the genre's tropes. They thought the game's sequel, EarthBound, to be very similar and a better implementation of Mother's gameplay ideas. Critics also noted the game's high difficulty level and balance issues. Mother sold 150,000 copies.
Jeremy Parish of USgamer described the game as a mild-mannered parody ("between satire and pastiche") of the role-playing game genre, specifically the Dragon Quest series. He noted that Mother, like many Japanese role-playing games, emulated the Dragon Quest style: the windowed interface, first-person perspective in combat, and graphics, but differed in its contemporary setting and non-fantasy story. Parish commented that Atlus's 1987 Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei was similarly set in the modern day, though it devolved into science fiction and fantasy in ways Mother did not. He added that the game has "a sense of wonder and magic realism ... in the context of childhood imagination" as Ninten can feel more like someone "pretending" to be a Dragon Quest-style hero than a hero in his own right.[b] Parish said this makes the player wonder which game events are real and which are Ninten's imagination. Parish cited Itoi's interest in entering the games industry to make a "satirical" role-playing game as proof of the genre's swift five-year rise to widespread popularity in Japan.
Cassandra Ramos of RPGamer praised the game's graphics and music, and considered it among the console's best, with "rich, ... nicely detailed" visuals, Peanuts-style characters, and "simple but effective" audio. In contrast, she found the battle sequences aesthetically "pretty bland" and, otherwise, the game's "least interesting" aspect. Overall, she found Mother "surprisingly complex ... for its time", and considered its story superior to (but less "wacky" than) its sequel. She especially recommended the game for EarthBound fans.
Parish credited Itoi for the game's vision and compared his ability and literary interests with American author Garrison Keillor. Parish felt that Itoi's pedigree as a writer and copywriter was well suited for the space-limited, 8-bit role-playing game medium, which privileged Mother ahead of other games written by non-writers. USgamer's Parish noted how the game's non-player characters would "contemplate the profound and trivial" instead of reciting the active plot. He added that the game's lack of an official North American release has bolstered the reputation and revere of its immediate sequel.
While Parish said Mother's script was "as sharp as EarthBound's", he felt that the original's game mechanics did not meet the same level of quality. Mother lacked the "rolling HP counter" and non-random encounters for which later entries in the series were known. Parish also found the game's balance to be uneven, as the statistical character attributes and level of difficulty scaled incorrectly with the game's progression. Rose Colored Gaming, a company that made custom reproductions of the NES cartridge, noted that the Japanese release's was more challenging than the unreleased English localization. RPGamer's Ramos similarly found balance issues, with a high amount of battles, difficult enemies, reliance on grinding, and some oversized levels. Parish wrote earlier for 1UP.com that in comparison to EarthBound, Mother is "worse in just about every way", a clone where its sequel was "a satirical deconstruction of RPGs". He wrote that the game's historical significance is not for its actual game but for the interest it generated in video game emulation and the preservation of unreleased games.
Mother was rereleased in Japan as the single-cartridge Mother 1+2 for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. This version uses the extended ending of the unreleased English prototype, but is only presented in Japanese. Starmen.net hosted a Mother 25th Anniversary Fanfest in 2014 with a livestream of the game and plans for a remixed soundtrack. Later that year, fans released a 25th Anniversary Edition ROM hack that updated the game's graphics, script, and gameplay balance.
In April 2016, a film group known as 54&O Productions announced a Kickstarter campaign to secure funds for a fan-made documentary entitled Mother to Earth. The documentary will focus on the road to Mother's localization in North America, and will include interviews with key people behind the process. After the success of the Kickstarter campaign, the documentary is set to be released around December 2018.
Notes and references
- "Mother (NES) News, Reviews, Trailer & Screenshots". NintendoLife. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- Parish, Jeremy (August 21, 2014). "Daily Classic: 25 Years Ago, Mother (aka EarthBound Zero) Skewered JRPGs, and America". USgamer. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- Ramos, Cassandra. "Mother 1+2 (Mother 1)". RPGamer. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- Itoi, Shigesato (August 22, 2000). "『ＭＯＴＨＥＲ ３』の開発が中止になったことについての" [About the development of "MOTHER 3" has been canceled]. 1101.com. Translation. Translated introduction. Archived from the original on August 30, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
- "MOTHER". Famitsu (in Japanese). Kadokawa Corporation. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- Parish, Jeremy (April 22, 2007). "Hall of Fame: Earthbound Zero". 1UP.com. Ziff Davis. Retrieved October 11, 2014.[dead link]
- Schreier, Jason (March 14, 2015). "Mother Coming To Wii U As Earthbound Beginnings". Kotaku.
- Grubb, Jeff (June 14, 2015). "Earthbound Beginnings is Mother 1, and it's out today on Virtual Console". VentureBeat.
- Thier, Dave (June 14, 2015). "'Mother' Finally Coming To Virtual Console As 'Earthbound: Beginnings,' Nintendo Announces". Forbes.
- Suzuki, Keichi. "Keiichi Suzuki – Profile". keiichisuzuki.com. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013. Retrieved October 2, 2009.
- "Interview with Keiichi Suzuki". Weekly Famitsu (in Japanese). Enterbrain, Inc.: 12. October 28, 1994.
- Gann, Patrick. "Mother". RPGFan. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- Corriea, Alexa Ray (July 1, 2013). "Earthbound Zero localized and housed in this pretty fan-made NES cart". Polygon. Vox Media. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- "Only in Japan". Nintendo Power (56): 64. January 1994.
- Latshaw, Tim (July 1, 2014). "Mother 25th Anniversary Fanfest Teleports in this 5th July". NintendoLife. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- Mandelin, Clyde (November 6, 2014). "ROM Hack: MOTHER 25th Anniversary Addition". EarthBound Central. Archived from the original on November 8, 2014. Retrieved November 8, 2014.
- Latshaw, Tim (April 20, 2016). "Campaign Seeks to Spin the Tale Behind EarthBound Beginnings". Nintendo Life. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
- 54&O Productions. "Mother to Earth - A Documentary about Earthbound Beginnings". Kickstarter. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
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2020-2030 has been declared the Decade of Action for achieving the UN SDGs and the 2030 targets. It is time now to achieve a just and sustainable world. Most of the SDG targets are oriented to the government and corporate players on the global stage, but what about us? What about the everyday actions of everyday people? Collective action works; if we all participate in advocating and enacting change (alongside corporate and government action), we can meet the 2030 targets and secure a better future. Being a conscious consumer is no longer enough; we must vote with our dollars on a bigger and broader scale. To vote with your dollars is recognizing how your purchases and financial spending influence the economic landscape. That is to say, who does and doesn’t get your money is important. We’ve had the marching activists, then came the digital activists — time for the age of the financial activist.
This article will take you through 10 tools to be an influential financial activist. Some are concepts you may be familiar with, while others may be completely new. Each works to reduce your negative impact or increase your positive impact in social, environmental, and humanitarian spheres. This can speak to a broad audience, and so some tools may be more or less accessible and powerful in your life. Nevertheless, let us say it loud and clear from the start, investing is the smartest tool in a financial activist’s belt. By shifting our money where it matters most for corporations (their bottom line), we can drive systemic change from the inside out.
10 Tools of Financial Activism
- Swap and borrow
- Buy ethical
- Financial Literacy
- Ethical Banking
- Shareholder Advocacy
Donate to causes you care about to generate change. It is a straightforward form of voting with your dollars as it gets your money straight to the places you want it. However, don’t donate blindly; make sure you know where you are donating and the impact it will have. Find out all the details. What are they fundraising for? How will the money be disseminated? Are they successful at what they claim to do? Before donating, use websites like Charity Navigator to scout out the organization and see how it spends its money. The larger the donation, the more information you want to get about where it is going. Unless you state how you wish the money to be spent, the charity is free to use your donation how they see fit.
2. Swap and borrow
Reduce your environmental impact by removing yourself from the trade of consumerism. Research in the Journal of Industrial Ecology suggests that approximately 60% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from household consumption and the processes associated with manufacturing and transporting these products. Opting out of consumerism is not the answer to everything, nor is it entirely possible, but to help address overconsumption, the swap and borrow method is excellent! Consider borrowing from a friend, neighbor, or colleague if you need something just once or twice or wish to try it before buying. Lend your items out, too; sharing is caring! One friend may have a drill, another a sewing machine, and another has a hotdog costume – between them, they have access to 3 items at the expense of 1. You can trade with your time, too, if you don’t want to give things away or need something in return. Timebanking works well in small communities and often is done unofficially between friends in the form of “favors”. This could be credit for an hour baking a birthday cake that you later redeem for 1-hour fence painting. Trading skills can increase positive social impact and reduce demand for one-time-use products.
There’s enough clothing on the planet already for everyone on it. Some argue that the second-hand clothing industry exists because of our global consumption problems. Purchasing an item already in circulation helps prevent it from ending up in a landfill and reduces your contribution to the company it was manufactured by. The working conditions of garment factories are notoriously poor. While charities like Labour Behind The Label are doing incredible work to get justice for garment workers, purchasing second-hand clothes avoids your dollars funding sweatshops as items are already off the original market shelf. Pre-loved is also great for when you’re on a budget – ignore the trendy “vintage” or “thrift” stores that have been given a hipster makeover and head for places like Goodwill, Depop, Facebook marketplace, and charity stores that are a bit more rustic. Spending in charity stores doesn’t just mean your dollars avoid unethical companies but actually go somewhere doing good. When you have items to spare or move on, you can donate them too.
4. Buy ethical
We can be socially and environmentally responsible consumers every day by addressing our shopping list. Buy from ethical businesses, purchase locally and shop with co-operatives where possible. Spend money on products put out by businesses that demonstrate their brand values through their production practices. Suppose a company says it is LGBTQ+ friendly but donates to charities that fund conversion therapy. Does that align with your values? If a company supports BIPOC equality but has an all-white board of governors, does that align with your values? There are so many ways to buy ethically. It all depends on what you prioritize: fair trade, zero-waste, plastic-free, vegan, animal cruelty-free, local-owned, sustainably sourced, and repurposed. Some of these things impact globally (fair trade) while others have closer proximity impacts (local-owned); all have the power to make a change. Spend intentionally to vote with your dollars actively.
Voting with your dollars is just as much about where you don’t put your dollars as where you do. Send companies you disagree with a message by removing your subscription or refusing to buy their products and send a letter explaining why. Suppose data collection on their end suggests that the top reason people leave is ethics-related. In that case, this makes it clear what changes they need to make to continue customer engagement. Be loud about who you are boycotting; often, a boycott can be a bigger threat in terms of reputation than in terms of money. But remember, be aware of the parent company and whether the alternatives are still owned by the same parent company. Perhaps even boycott in your career: who is paying your bills? Refuse to work for companies that don’t align with your values. Make it part of the job search phase to check the sustainability policy or the diversity and inclusion schemes. Quitting your job or avoiding industries is not the most accessible for everyone, and maybe you’ve finally achieved your dream job, but instead, you could participate in unions and strikes and make an impact that way. Stage a walkout and boycott your employers for a day to demand change. Work is a financial transaction and, therefore, has financial power.
Take your boycott to an even larger scale and remove yourself from entire industries causing social, environmental, and humanitarian harm. By clearing up your investments, you make it clear that you are serious about your future and can make waves in reducing your negative impact. You can divest in multiple ways, including your investment portfolio and retirement plant, but what you divest from is also key. The biggest divestment movement of today is fossil fuels, but there is growing momentum for divestment from the arms trade, civilian arms, and private prisons. It’s all about where you want your dollars to go. Divestment immediately freezes, and new ties are being made between your dollars and that industry directly. If you want to show your commitment, you can also join the individual pledge at DivestInvest. Additionally, see how you can participate in the divestment movement by supporting NGOs and other initiatives that put pressure on policymakers.
7. Financial Literacy
Know what’s what. How does the world of money work, and how does our money work in the world? Increasing your financial literacy and of those around you is vital to understand what voting with your dollars can mean on a meta-scale. It can start with effective money management and setting SMART financial goals but can also move on to include understanding where your pension goes and the difference between a savings account and an investment account. It’s time to start talking about money. The taboo around money keeps us from talking about wealth gaps, reinforces privilege, and limits the scope of your financial activism. At FLIT Invest, we are deeply passionate about financial literacy. You may find many of our previous blog posts helpful: Learn How to Budget Like a Pro, What is a rainy-day fund and why do you need one?, How to Set Your Financial Goals. Be sure to check those out to position yourself in the best place to start casting big votes with your dollars!
8. Ethical Banking
By choosing an ethical bank, you are part of collective enabling banks to fund projects that benefit society and the environment and avoid funding industries you don’t agree with, like fossil fuels, arms trade, or mass incarceration. Our decisions on banking, pensions, savings, and investments can also drive positive change. We need to move to a model where making money is also creating value for people and the planet in our direct dollar votes but also indirect. Refer to the Global Alliance for Banking on Values for reputable banking societies. Alternatively, opt for community banking. This is particularly good for serving social justice issues. Smaller community banks may provide financing to those marginalized communities bypassed by the big banks but require capital to do so. You can also check your bank account’s rating at Rainforest Action Network. Some of the world’s most prominent financial institutions have been key financiers of fossil fuel projects, yet their customers have no idea! This is your opportunity to “store” your money in a place that will do good on your behalf.
9. Shareholder Advocacy
Take a seat at the table and make changes by being a shareholder. To be a shareholder is to own a piece of a company, even though that piece may be small. It is an opportunity to engage with an organization to promote practices you value. Taking action through shareholder positions can take two forms. The first is to get on the board of a company you disagree with and change from the inside out. Second, if you already hold a position as a shareholder, you can advocate for others. The first one is an intense process and is considered a great success if achieved (see climate activists on Exxon’s board). The second involves those holding board positions recognizing their power and providing allyship to social justice causes, whether voting for BIPOC C-suite positions or proposing sustainable in-house practices. This impact can be significant in the right places.
For the long term, wide-scale, and high-impact financial activism, investing is the way. There is a number of ways to invest sustainably (see What is Sustainable Investing? for a thorough breakdown). Part of impact investing is avoiding companies that don’t represent your values and supporting companies that do (negative screening). The flip side is investing in funds that are performing well according to specific frameworks (positive screening/ESG). To achieve this, financial institutions must be transparent about the projects they fund, and you must be careful with greenwashed funds. This is where your financial literacy will come in handy! Ethical investing has a range of techniques, each with its strengths and weaknesses, but impact investing is the future. It is very specific and targets selected issues often aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, such as gender equality, climate action, no poverty, and zero hunger. Start investing now; it’s time for the age of financial activism!
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Accordance has a fantastic sale right now on the Old Testament and New Testament Library series (OTL and NTL) by Westminster John Knox Press. OTL and NTL are longstanding pillars in biblical scholarship, regularly appearing on best commentary lists like this one by Scot McKnight. The contributors are regularly insightful and helpful to anyone interested in better understanding the Bible.
The series is vast, covering every Old Testament book and all the New Testament with the exception of Matthew, Romans, 1 Corinthians, and James. Several companion volumes have been published dealing various biblical studies related themes (OT companion volumes / NT companion volumes). On the Accordance website, you can find a detailed listing of all the volumes offered. It’s worth noting that NTL volumes are still actively being published. Alan Culpepper’s Matthew commentary is scheduled for release at the end of this year.
In this post, I’ll demonstrate the type of commentary you can expect to find in the New Testament Library (on sale now for $199) and how you can use the commentary in Accordance.
Here a list of topics covered below:
- The structure of a commentary section with an example from Stephen Fowl on Ephesians
- Eugene Boring on Mark
- Luke Timothy Johnson on Hebrews
- Judith M. Lieu on 1–3 John
- Looking up primary references using the Text Browser
Structure of a section
One of my favorite aspects of the series is its straightforward, uncluttered format. Let’s take a look at a section from Stephen Fowl’s Ephesians commentary.
An entry begins with a scripture reference, title, and a short summary.
An original translation follows, including hyperlinked footnotes to concise notes on textual and translational issues.
The following portion is the commentary proper, the place where you find commentary on individual verses or smaller clusters of verses.
That’s it — summary, translation, commentary. No need to jump around to various sections on structure, form, background, etc. All the verse-by-verse or passage-by-passage commentary is in one place. This is what I’m looking for most of the time.
Now, let’s take a look at some individual volumes.
Eugene Boring on Mark
One of my first encounters with this series was Eugene Boring’s Mark commentary. It was his commentary on the first word of the Gospel that I found so striking.
Boring notes that the first word of the book, ἀρχή, not only means beginning but also authority, norm, or rule, and he translate this way:
“Beginning / Norm of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.”
Mark’s first word archē means both “beginning” and “norm.” English unfortunately has no single word that combines both meanings, but either alone misses Mark’s point. (p. 30)
I was skeptical of this comment at first because it seemed like a classic word-study fallacy where someone tries to argue that an instance of a word means everything that it could possibly mean. By the end of the section, however, I was persuaded.
Boring is not making a naive claim based on some supposed magical power of the Greek language. He is simply stating that the Gospel of Mark is more than a starting point; it is also a norm for understanding who Jesus is. Listen to Boring explain:
By committing his story to writing and presenting the Christian community with a document to be read in the church’s worship, Mark composed a narrative that both portrayed the there–and–then event of salvation as it unfolded in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus—the beginning of the story that continues into the readers’ present—and a norm by which later claims to present the gospel could be measured. “Beginning” thus does not mean “preliminary,” as though the later church would outgrow this beginning, which is also source and norm. (p. 32)
Reading ἀρχή this way is more impactful and significant that simply thinking of it as meaning “beginning.” It is, I think, similar to how Matthew uses genesis (γένεσις) in his opening verse. As I’ve written about before, I think Matthew means more (but not less) than birth record when he describes the opening portion of the book with Βίβλος γενέσεως. It’s a birth record, but it is in a sense a “new Genesis,” a new origin story for the people of God.
Luke Timothy Johnson on Hebrews
In 2010, I traveled for three weeks across various parts of the Middle East with a students from the Candler School of Theology. On multiple occasions during those weeks, I heard someone speak of how they admired and enjoyed Luke Timothy Johnson as a professor. At that time, I had not read much of his work, but the way his students talked about him — not just as a great teacher but also as genuinely good person — I knew wanted to. His Hebrews commentary was the first book I picked up.
This volume of the NTL series is listed among the top three Hebrews commentaries on bestcommentaries.com, and it is one of my favorite commentaries on any book. This isn’t a Keener-esque, 4-volume magnum opus, but even at just over 350 pages the work is thorough and insightful.
I want to quote a somewhat lengthy portion of his introduction to demonstrate one aspect of his thoroughness. LTJ highlights Hebrews’ use of metaphor through the book, but note the plethora of references and examples:
Hebrews is unusually rich in its use of metaphors, which are not simply verbal ornaments but ways of structuring thought. Hebrews uses metaphors drawn from the realm of law (2:3–4; 6:16; 7:12) and property (2:14; 3:1; 6:13–18; 7:4–10; 9:16–22; 10:34; 11:1), of agriculture (6:7–8; 12:11) and architecture (6:1; 11:10), of seafaring (6:19) and athletics (5:14; 12:1–3, 11–13), of cult (chaps. 9–10) and education (5:12–14; 12:7–11). With the exception of the cult, which is explicitly Jewish, all these metaphorical fields are familiar in Greco-Roman culture.
Perhaps the most powerful metaphor of Hebrews is one that is never fully expressed, but is conveyed in a number of ways: the metaphor of life as a journey toward a destination, or pilgrimage.11 Hebrews calls its readers to movement. Their danger is that they will drift away (2:1), fall (4:11), fall away (3:12), apostasize (6:6), be led away (13:9), abandon (10:25), be weighted (12:1), be weary or lame (12:12). Their hope lies in moving forward: they are to enter the rest (4:3, 6, 11), draw near to the throne of grace (4:16; 10:22), run the race after Jesus (12:1), make straight paths (12:12), come to Mount Zion (12:22). Jesus has gone before them as forerunner (6:20) and pioneer (2:10; 12:2). They are to “go to him” (13:13). All of these expressions powerfully support the sense of living life as a journey, a journey in which the here and now must be left in order to gain something greater: “for we do not have a permanent city here. We are seeking the city to come” (13:14; see esp. 11:8–16). (p.10)
I also appreciate how LTJ interacts with primary literature. In his 15 page commentary on Hebrews 4:14–5:10, he cites numerous NT and OT references, including 1–4 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, along with references to 1–3 Enoch, Dio Chrysostom, Lucian of Samosata, Philo, Xenophon, Aristeas, and Josephus.
Let’s take a look at quote from the commentary itself. What does it mean for Jesus to be “made perfect” through his suffering? How can people filled with weakness and prone to sin approach God? LTJ writes,
Because Christ shares all the weaknesses and temptations of humans yet because he has bent his will in obedience toward God, he “was made perfect” (5:9), and it is “through this will” that others are able to be sanctified, that is, also move into the realm of God’s own presence and power (10:10) … Those who approach his glorious throne with boldness, therefore, do so because they recognize in him a king utterly concerned for them. The very phrase thronos tēs charitos (“gracious throne”) can also be rendered “throne of grace”—he is a king who is the source of favor and gift, a king who is the “cause of eternal salvation” (5:9) …
I especially like this part, continuing the last quote:
… As people filled with weaknesses and temptations as well as sins, they appropriately approach the divine throne as petitioners, seeking “mercy” (eleos; see Gen 24:12; Pss 6:4; 12:5; 24:6; 30:16) and “favor” (charis; see Gen 30:27; 32:5; Exod 3:21; 33:12; 1 Sam 1:18), and as those approaching one like themselves now made Lord, they expect such a response, rather than rejection and punishment. (p. 141–142)
Judith M. Lieu on 1–3 John
I appreciate Judith Lieu’s approach to commentary writing. She describes her approach this way:
I have made the decision that detailed engagement with other interpreters, whether in agreement or debate, does not belong in a commentary of this kind; instead the task is to offer a coherent and sustained reading of the Letters, indicating how they are shaped both by events and ideas from outside, and by the purpose they are designed to fulfill. (p. x)
This approach to commentary writing stands in stark contrast to what you might find in some commentaries — an ICC Davies and Allison Matthew commentary, for example. And while I genuinely love the utterly exhaustive way they, especially Allison, approach commentary writing, often times I’m really just looking for something more like what I find in Lieu: a focused, coherent explanation of the text. But at almost 300 pages, Lieu’s commentary on these three little letters is not skimpy in any way. Let’s look at a few more passages.
Regarding the unique nature of 1–3 John, Lieu highlights how 1 John is marked by a “thoroughgoing anonymity of author, recipients, and context” (p. 7). You can see here how she justifies that statement with a host of references.
All this means that 1 John cannot be treated in the same way as 1 Corinthians or Galatians might be, with careful reference to the context of the community, to the challenges they faced in society, or to Paul’s endeavors to integrate their personal and communal lives with his interpretation of the Christian message. (p. 7)
Regarding the purpose of 1 John,
… It will become evident that the whole strategy of the letter is to foster a tight communal identity, to create an imagined community whose distance from “the world” and whose adherence to all that the author represents is beyond question … (p. 7)
I appreciate how Lieu highlights the history of interpretation throughout her work. In her discussion of the reception of 1–3 John, she starts with the earliest extant references:
As already noted, the earliest explicit reference to any of the Johannine letters is made by Irenaeus, who quotes both 1 and 2 John, although as if both were from the same letter, and who unhesitatingly attributes them to the author of the Fourth Gospel, whom he identifies with the Beloved Disciple and with John the son of Zebedee. That Papias explicitly quoted the letter is doubtful; further, Polycarp’s warning, “Everyone who does not acknowledge that Jesus Christ has come in flesh is an antichrist and whoever does not acknowledge the testimony of the cross is of the devil,” certainly sounds Johannine; but whether it is a direct allusion to 1 John 4:2 or stems from a shared tradition may be debated (Phil. 7.1). (p. 26)
Finally, I wanted to point out her helpful comments on one of the most enigmatic portions of 1 John — the “I’m writing to you … / I have written to you …” statements in 2:12–14. Lieu points out how we find here a summary of themes appearing before and after this section of 1 John. She argues that the purpose of the section is to assure the readers (p. 85).
Finally, let’s take a look one of the benefits of using a series like this in Accordance.
Looking up references to primary literature in Accordance
Accordance’s Text Browser makes looking up references to primary literature so easy and fun. Check out this screenshot. I just clicked on a reference to Zechariah 3:1 in LTJ’s Hebrews commentary.
I mentioned earlier how Luke Timothy Johnson’s commentary was packed full of references to other scripture and other literature. If you have your Amplify settings set to automatically open a text browser, when you click a link you can see your favorite versions in parallel with all the tagging information and cross-highlighting available in a normal search tab. Here’s where to find that setting in preferences.
One of the coolest parts is that the Text Browser is not just for biblical references. When I click on a reference to the Letter of Aristeas, I immediately see both English and Greek:
When Raymond Collins discusses similarities between the way 1 Timothy describes the church and the language of 1QS, I can click once and see the Dead Sea Scrolls in English and Hebrew, as well:
Note here Judith Lieu’s reference to the conceptual similarity between “you have conquered the evil one” in 1 John 2:13 and the dominion of the “sons of light” in the War Scroll:
That took one click to open the biblical reference, one click to open the DSS reference, I dragged the DSS Text Browser down beneath the biblical one, and adjusted the width a little — less than ten seconds. For more information on the Text Browser, check out Accordance’s excellent documentation.
The New Testament Library is wonderful series that will prove helpful to anyone who wants to better understand scripture. Its straightforward format is easy to use, and the Accordance Text Browser is an ideal way to look up references to primary literature as you read.
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|Traffic in the rain on I-5 from the Skidmore Overpass|
it pours, right? Read on—& welcome to another Rose City Wednesday!
At least in North America, it’s a pretty well known fact that the Pacific Northwest is a rainy area. Both my newly adopted home city of Portland & Seattle have that reputation, & it is well-deserved—yes, it rains a lot in these parts.
But you may be interested to learn that neither Portland nor Seattle rank in the top 10 rainiest cities in the continental U.S.; Mobile, Alabama ranks #1 on the list, & in fact all of the top 10 cities are in the southeast, & most are along the Gulf of Mexico. Furthermore, if one looks at an extended version of the list, no Pacific Northwest cities appear until Olympia, Washington at #24. Now, if you change the criteria from the amount of rainfall received to the number of rainy days per year, things change a bit; in this case Olympia has the dubious distinction of being #1, & Eugene, Oregon comes in at #5; but otherwise, once again you have all southeastern cities.
|Drizzle & soggy streets on N. Mississippi Ave|
How can this be? Well, a few things to keep in mind. One, much of the rainfall in Portland is in the form of drizzle, as opposed to the out-&-out cloudbursts that happen in the southeast, & even along the eastern seaboard in general in the summer months. That’s not to say that there are no soaking rainstorms, but it is to say that on many “rainy” days the rainfall is more of a nuisance than an absolute deterrent, even to those of us who travel a lot on foot & wait at bus stops.
Another thing to note in terms of the reputation that Portland, Seattle & the Northwest in general hold, is that it does get cloudy here. In fact, in a separate study of the U.S. cities with the most cloud cover, Seattle came in at #4 & Portland at #5, with all the top five cities being located in either Oregon or Washington (Astoria, Oregon, on the coast, is #1.)
|Overcast? Yes, a lot!|
In addition, Portland has the rainy/dry (or at least, considerably less rainy) season phenomenon. From October thru March, there is at least three inches of precipitation each month (October being the lowest on average with 3 inches even), peaking at 5.64 in November. Of the 26 plus inches of precipitation that falls on an average in those six months, only 2.5 inches on an average is snow (with February averaging 1.2 inches per year as the snowiest month), so a lot of rain is coming down in a 6 month period. & in fact, if we go back to the Weatherbill study I quoted earlier, we find that Portland (& Seattle of course) rank in the top five rainiest cities in the U.S. when we look just at that six month stretch (Portland being slightly rainier than Seattle during the first three months, & vice versa during the second three month period.)
|The Spurs of the Moment at Garden Eclectica, Portland: Eberle Umbach, Dani Leone, Chris Leone & Yrs Truly|
Of course, as this photo illustrates, it can rain here most any time—this isn’t California, where the Major League baseball teams frequently go a season or two with no rainouts. That photo was taken in June 2007!
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Friday, October 03, 2014
New research by scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) and the Ottawa Heart Institute has uncovered a new pathway by which the brain uses an unusual steroid to control blood pressure. The study, which also suggests new approaches for treating high blood pressure and heart failure, appears today in the journal Public Library of Science (PLOS) One.
“This research gives us an entirely new way of understanding how the brain and the cardiovascular system work together,” said Dr. John Hamlyn, professor of physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, one of the principal authors. “It opens a new and exciting way for us to work on innovative treatment approaches that could one day help patients.”
For decades, researchers have known that the brain controls the diameter of the peripheral arteries via the nervous system. Electrical impulses from the brain travel to the arteries via a network of nerves known as the sympathetic nervous system. This system is essential for daily life, but is often chronically overactive in high blood pressure and heart failure. In fact, many drugs that help with hypertension and heart failure work by decreasing both acute and chronic activity in the sympathetic nervous system. However, these drugs often have serious side effects, such as fatigue, dizziness and erectile dysfunction. “These drawbacks have led to the search for novel ways to inhibit the sympathetic nervous system while causing fewer problems for hypertension and heart failure patients,” says Dr. Frans Leenen, director of hypertension at the Ottawa Heart Institute, and a principal author of the study.
Working with an animal model of hypertension, Dr. Hamlyn and Dr. Mordecai Blaustein, professor of physiology and medicine at the UM SOM, and their research partner, Dr. Leenen, found a new link between the brain and increased blood pressure, namely, a little-known steroid called ouabain (pronounced WAH-bane). Ouabain was discovered in human blood more than 20 years ago by Dr. Hamlyn and Dr. Blaustein, along with scientists at the Upjohn Company. The new study is the first to identify the particular pathway that connects the brain to ouabain’s effects on proteins that regulate arterial calcium and contraction. Through this mechanism, ouabain makes arteries more sensitive to sympathetic stimulation, and as a result the enhanced artery constriction promotes chronic hypertension.
“Now that we understand the role of ouabain, we can begin working on how to modify this new pathway to help people with cardiovascular problems,” said Dr. Blaustein. “The potential for this is big.” Dr. Blaustein, who has been doing research on the substance since 1977, said medications that block ouabain’s effects might improve the lives of people with hypertension and heart failure.
The researchers, who include Vera Golovina, Ph.D., an adjunct associate professor of physiology at UM SOM, and Bing Huang, M.D, Ph.D., a research associate at the Ottawa Heart Institute, also found significant new evidence that ouabain is manufactured by mammals, a question that had not been previously answered.
“This discovery underscores the crucial importance of basic research here at the School of Medicine,” said Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, as well as vice president of medical affairs, the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko Bowers Distinguished Professor. “These scientists have spent years unraveling the many potential roles of ouabain and how it works, and now we are beginning to see the fruits of their labor.”
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
The paper, “Neuroendocrine Humoral and Vascular Components in the Pressor Pathway for Brain Angiotensin II: A New Axis in Long Term Blood Pressure Control,” is available here.
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Violet Rose and the Surprise Party Sticker Activity Book Paperback
by Nosy Crow
Illustrated by Jannie Ho
Part of the Violet Rose series
When Violet Rose and her friends realise that their shy pal, Lily, has a birthday coming up, they decide to throw her a surprise party.
Help the friends write their invitations, design their decorations, make the presents -and you can even throw a party of your own, too!
A delightful, lavishly produced title, designed to get children reading, to inspire imaginative play and to build confidence in craft.
Packed with activities, and with more printableson the companion website, this title represents real value for money.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 52 pages
- Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd
- Publication Date: 04/06/2015
- Category: Press out & kit books
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A Dedication To My WifeT.S. Eliot
A Dedication To My Wife Lyrics
That quickens my senses in our waking time
And the rhythm that governs the repose of our sleeping time,
the breathing in unison.
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other
Who think the same thoughts without need of speech,
And babble the same speech without need of meaning.
No peevish winter wind shall chill
No sullen tropic sun shall wither
The roses in the rose-garden which is ours and ours only
These are private words addressed to you in public.
In the edition of his play, The Elder Statesman, T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) wrote this dedicatory poem in 1957 to his second wife, Valerie (Esme Valerie Fletcher, 1926-2012).
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Hearing about the Pikitup troubles started me thinking about rubbish.
We all generate lots of trash every single day.
How many people do actually recycle their stuff? I know that some places have bins that are easily accessible for people to throw their paper, plastic or glass in and all it requires is a little bit of effort. Other places provide special bags for recycling stuff and it gets specially picked up every week. That’s also relatively easy to do.
Then you get the places are not so jacked-up and it actually does require a fair amount of trouble to recycle properly.
If your area does not have good recycling habits there are other things that you can do to help out.
Most places in South Africa have people who trawl around the bins in residential areas on rubbish day. They take out all the plastic, glass and paper to be recycled. They get money for this stuff – and often this is their only source of income.
I know some people whinge and mutter because they don’t always leave the bins nice and tidy as they found them, but actually they’re doing the earth a service.
Why fill up the landfill more when we can recycle?
So… the nice thing to do is to help out and try and segregate your own rubbish.
Save all your glass bottles and jars and put them into a separate bag in the bin.
Do the same with tins, plastic, paper and cardboard. Make sure you wash out tins and plastic containers first. It must be really horrible for the people who collect this stuff to have to grovel out yukky miffy old disgusting cans with bits of mouldy dogfood or baked beans clinging to the sides.
You could also find out if any of the play schools in your area need stuff – like the inside cardboard roll in the toilet paper, cereal boxes, plastic trays, jars etc. They often use things like that for craft projects or for storage.
If you have batteries, bulbs or ink cartridges you can usually recycle those in the bins in Pick ‘n Pay. They know how to properly dispose such nasty things. Some batteries have mercury in them and you really don’t want those to end up in the landfill.
All it takes is a bit of time and organisation.
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The Ohio Department of Education notified the Fairborn City School District yesterday that it will be placed in "a state of fiscal caution" next week and the Huber Heights City School District is also facing a similar designation. It would mean that the districts would borrow money from the state for operations which would need to be repaid.
The Dayton Daily News reports both districts plan to request larger levies in May than the ones that were defeated in November. Fairborn's treasurer is asking the school board to approve an 11.7-mill emergency levy to generate $7 million annually over 10 years, and Huber Heights already will ask voters to approve a 9.95-mill levy. Budget cuts are also part of Huber Heights' school district plan to address their fiscal issues. Fairborn school officials have not yet said where they will make cuts. Their plan is due in March.
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Have you ever wondered why we have a president in the first place? What does a president do? Do we need a president? Can we function without a president? Mathematicians at the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) say that the human society is too complex to be governed by a president in a representative democracy, and that the United States probably shouldn’t have a president at all.
NECSI’s director, Yaneer Bar-Yam, who predicted the Arab Spring several weeks before it happened, says concentrating the power to organize society in the hands of a few individuals is absurd; a group of individuals cannot take the most favorable decisions for the society if it is not affected by the same issues. He tells VICE:
“There’s a natural process of increasing complexity in the world. And we can recognize that at some point that increase in complexity is going to run into the complexity of the individual. And at that point, hierarchical organizations will fail.
“We were raised to believe that democracy, and even the democracy that we have, is a system that has somehow inherent good to it. But it’s not just democracy that fails. Hierarchical organizations are failing in the response to decision-making challenges.
“And this is true whether we’re talking about dictatorships, or communism that had very centralized control processes, and for representative democracies today. Representative democracies still focus power in one or few individuals. And that concentration of control and decision-making makes those systems ineffective.”
Because “a control hierarchy is designed to enable a single individual to control the collective behavior, but not directly the behavior of each individual,” representative democracy is not the answer. Bar-Yam explains:
“During the time of ancient empires, large-scale human systems executed relatively simple behaviors, and individuals performed relatively simple individual tasks that were repeated by many individuals over time to have a large-scale effect. The scale of activity was possible, without modern sources of energy and technology, because of the large number of individuals involved.”
VICE’s Jason Koebler believes since “we expect a president — aided by advisors and Congress, of course — to ultimately make decisions in an environment that is far too complicated for any one person” democracy as we know it is failing. Bar-Yam substantiates:
“We cannot expect one individual to know how to respond to the challenges of the world today. So whether we talk about one candidate or another, the Democrats or Republicans, Clinton versus Trump, the real question ultimately is, will we be able to change the system?
“We’ve become fundamentally confused about what the decisions are, and what their consequences are. And we can’t make a connection between them. And that’s true about everybody, as well as about the decision-makers, the policymaker. They don’t know what the effects will be of the decisions that they’re making.”
While Bar-Yam proposes a more laterally-organized system of governance in which tons of small teams specialize in certain policies and work together to ultimately take decisions, economist Ludwig von Mises (who concluded that the complexities of society makes it difficult for centralized governments to act efficiently, way before Bar-Yam was involved in the study) offers a very different solution i.e. the absence of government interference:
“It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
“Liberty and freedom are the conditions of man within a contractual society. Social cooperation under a system of private ownership of the means of production means that within the range of the market the individual is not bound to obey and to serve an overlord.
“As far as he gives and serves other people, he does so of his own accord in order to be rewarded and served by the receivers. He exchanges goods and services; he does not do compulsory labor and does not pay tribute. He is certainly not independent. He depends on the other members of society. But this dependence is mutual. The buyer depends on the seller and the seller on the buyer.”
Is the desire for a representative democracy on the decline? Does choosing leaders matter anymore? Do governments mean coercion and compulsion? Is human society really that complicated to have a president? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below…
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The DT area is exceptionally well resourced, with facilities for woodwork, metalwork, and plastics.
CAD and CAM equipment is available attached to a router and laser cutting equipment and is well used by the students in making high quality products.
All students in KS2 and KS3 get the opportunity to use the DT facilities, and a number of exciting projects in plastics, wood, and metal ensure that they gain the necessary skills. At GCSE, both DT Resistant Materials and Food Technology are available to students in the option blocks. A Level Product Design is a popular choice for those students continuing into the Sixth Form.
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Are you thinking of switching from iPhone to Android? If the doubt persists, know that Google decided to offer some good reasons for you to move on. The message is accompanied by the expansion of the “Switch to Android” feature, which allows the transfer of files between different operating systems.
See too: Check Out Google Features You Probably Don’t Know About
Good rations to switch from iPhone to Android
1 – Easier
According to Google, Android makes it easier to express yourself, mainly through Messages, Gboard and RCS.
2 – Videos allow interaction
The company also stressed the importance of devices that allow video chatting within the operating system. Google Meet, WhatsApp and FaceTime stand out.
3 – Swap iPhone for Android to listen to music
According to Google, “Your music will transfer to your Android phone as long as it is free of digital rights management (DRM). Your Apple Music purchases and downloaded content will still be accessible on your Android device via the Apple Music app.”
4 – App compatibility
iOS users can find almost all the same apps they already use on the little robot platform.
5 – More protection?
“Android fights bad apps, malware, phishing and spam and keeps you one step ahead of threats. Messages protects users from 1.5 billion spam messages per month. Android also provides timely recommendations, such as prompting you to select your location sharing preferences when opening an app, to help you make the best decisions for your privacy.
6 – More synergy
Big tech still says it’s worth switching from iPhone to Android because of several apps that can work together in synergy. The spotlight is on Chromebooks, Wear OS smartwatches, Google TVs and Fast Pair-enabled headphones.
7 – Count on Google apps
Google Docs, Google Translate and several others help a lot.
8 – Lots of widgets for you
Your smartphone’s home screen can look the way you want from the various widgets available.
9 – Accessibility
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The revivalism that spread across the country during the antebellum era also gave rise to numerous social reform movements, which challenged Americans to improve themselves and their communities. Because revivalism and reform went hand in hand, many prominent reformers were women. Denied roles in politics or in the new market economy, women found that they could make a difference through championing social change. These women reformers often fought for a variety of causes at the same time: for instance, the women’s suffrage movement was closely tied to the abolitionist movement.
The abolitionist movement sought to eradicate slavery in the United States. Prominent leaders in the movement included Theodore Weld, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Elijah P. Lovejoy, and William Lloyd Garrison, among others. Garrison, a radical abolitionist who called for immediate emancipation, became infamous when he started an antislavery newspaper, The Liberator, in 1831. His articles were so vitriolic that warrants for his arrest were issued in the South. Garrison and Weld also founded the American Anti-slavery Society in 1833.
Although the North was the hotbed of the abolitionist movement, not all northerners were abolitionists: many felt ambivalent toward emancipation or were downright against it. Trade unions and wage workers, for example, feared that if slavery were abolished, they would have to compete with free blacks for jobs (an argument also used by pro-slavery southerners). Most public figures and politicians shunned abolitionists for their radicalism and unwillingness to compromise. Even the “Great Emancipator” Abraham Lincoln, though more open to abolitionism, was wary of radical abolitionists.
The antebellum period was marked by several major slave uprisings. In 1822, a former slave named Denmark Vesey planned to lead eighty slaves in a revolt in Charleston, South Carolina. Although Vesey’s plans failed, southerners became terrified of losing control over slaves. In 1831, another slave, Nat Turner, led a bloody slave uprising in Virginia.
Because William Lloyd Garrison published the first edition of The Liberator the same year as Turner’s uprising, many southerners jumped to the conclusion that Garrison had incited the rebellions with his antislavery rhetoric. Furthermore, former slave Frederick Douglass became a celebrity in the North when he published his experiences in A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 184 5.
As the abolitionist movement grew, it became more of an organized political force. The movement grew to be so noisome that the House of Representatives actually passed a gag resolution in 1836 to squelch all further discussion of slavery. Several years later, in 1840, the abolitionists organized into a party, the Liberty Party. | <urn:uuid:04b9ae25-5df0-49b3-b517-9af2f37828c6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/precivilwar/section9.rhtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719155.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00333-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974966 | 576 | 4.5 | 4 |
Photographs by Michael Itkoff.
Charta, 2009. 64 pp., 31 color illustrations., 6¾x9½".
Signed copies available!
Michael Itkoff has traveled the world since 2002 taking portraits of everyday people in the street. In Itkoff's photographs a makeshift backdrop is held behind each of his subjects in London, Sydeny, Hanoi, Bangkok, and New York. This technique, normally reserved for celebrity and commercial portraiture, creates a striking aesthetic isolating the subjects from their urban contexts and allowing them to exist in a shared visual space as part of the same extended family.
'Shot in London, Sydney, Hanoi, Bangkok, and New York, Itkoff's portraits employ a makeshift backdrop to partially separate the subjects from their contextual surroundings. While this is a common technique for creating ambiguous context (and the basis for much of Richard Avedon's work), Itkoff refuses to adhere to the created boundaries and instead presents the full context of each figure — hands clutch a white square behind the subject while the world around them persists in full force. In his approach Itkoff is rejecting the pretension of hidden artifice, and the effect is powerful — each subject exists in a shared space, but this is a space which itself exists in everyday reality. '-Daniel Espeset, photo-eye Magazine Managing Editor | <urn:uuid:e0ffc54d-3b3c-4e8f-8158-8ee13a075552> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?catalog=DQ129 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00175-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916633 | 284 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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But our requiremnt is we dont want to mention the schema name. Is tis possible??
This is not describing a schema, AdventureWorkDW, and AdventureWork are database names.
If you want to eliminate the database name from your query then you must be connected to that database.
If your purposly connected to AdventureWorks, and you need data from the AdventureWorkDW database then you need to fully qualify the AdventureWorksDW table in your query by using the [DatabaseName].[Schema].[Table Name] in your Join.
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Party drugs could fill heroin void
The Federal Government should be "seriously concerned" about the abuse of party drugs - including the potentially lethal GHB - as heroin dries up and new drugs gain popularity, an international report warns.
The latest report by the International Narcotics Control Board - the body responsible for implementing the UN drug conventions - says the trafficking of party drugs into the country was also a concern.
Heroin abuse is at its lowest level in five years, mainly because the drug is becoming more difficult to obtain, the report says.
"Party drugs, such as GHB, as well as ketamine trafficking and abuse, are a cause for serious concern in Australia, as is the abuse of several benzodiazepines diverted from licit distribution channels," it says.
"The reduction in the availability of heroin in Australia has resulted in heroin abusers turning to other drugs."
The federal Minister for Justice and Customs, Chris Ellison, said the Government was at the forefront of the fight against drugs and trafficking and rejected the report's assertions that it was a serious problem in Australia.
"No one can accuse this Government of being soft on drugs," Senator Ellison said.
He said there had been "record seizures" of party drugs such of GHB, as well as seizures of precursors, the raw chemicals readily available in pharmacies, supermarkets and hardware stores and commonly used in backyard laboratories to produce amphetamines.
The annual report was also again heavily critical of Sydney's drug injecting room in Kings Cross and the State Government's approval of a four-year extension of the controversial trial.
The Prime Minister, John Howard, last year used the board's criticism of the injecting room to question whether the NSW trial was a breach of Australia's international drug control treaty obligations.
In a letter to the Premier, Bob Carr, Mr Howard warned that potential breaches of treaty obligations could spark sanctions against Australia's $100-million-a-year legal opiate industry.
But Andrew Plumley, a spokesman for the NSW Special Minister of State, John Della Bosca, said the injecting room was saving lives.
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Knifefish Will Execute Dangerous Operations For The U.S. Navy
The U.S. Navy plans to introduce by 2017 robots for different operations, like defending harbors, retrieving sunken equipment and even identifying mines for deactivation. Currently the trained dolphins and sea lions engaged into the Marine Mammal Program are doing this work, but unlike a robot, animals are expensive to train and maintain. Bluefin Robotics has designed the Knifefish, a robot that can operate continuously underwater for up to 16 hours (a usual dolphin stays underwater less than an hour before it needs to breathe). The Knifefish will use sonar to look for mines and could be joined by other bots. | <urn:uuid:0efb9d9e-61d9-4614-8851-0f9185c948b1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://futuristicnews.com/knifefish-will-execute-dangerous-operations-for-the-u-s-navy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00384-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949122 | 142 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Should There be Office Vaping Rooms?
1 CommentTuesday, 19 July 2016
For much of the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s, offices up and down the country were filled with smokers, and with them toxic hot boxes that were, the smoking room. Thinking about it now, in retrospect, they sound like the most awful places on earth. Now we know the deadly effects of tobacco smoke, as the biggest to public health. They were concentrated areas of gloomy carbon monoxide, singed carpets and yellowy discoloured ceilings. The very walls were dying. And workers saw this as a 5-minute haven of relief. How times have changed! So should there be office vaping rooms?
Public Health England have issued new guidelines in their latest report that suggest indoor spaces should be made available at companies with vaping staff. They also advise workplaces allow extra breaks for frequent top-ups of nicotine, due to the smaller nicotine hit e-cigarettes provide. An important part of the guidelines is that vapers should not be forced to mix with smokers as this “will undermine their ability to quit smoking”. It should be made clear that vaping is not at all associated with smoking, and companies are advised to not use smoking terminology when discussing e-cigarettes. PHE want ill-informed companies to leave rigid rules behind, that have seen e-cigarettes needlessly grouped together with tobacco products. Which in most places, means an all-out ban on smoking altogether, or requiring employees to leave the property to get a nicotine hit outside. This is okay for smoking employees, but not for vapers.
So what’s the best policy to manage e-cigarettes at work?
Following PHE advice, business owners should consider utilising small rooms, and unused meeting space for dedicated e-cigarette areas. Some companies have been very liberal with their policies and have allowed their employees to vape at their desks. All that is required is common sense. Do not send people trying to quit smoking outside with the smokers. Either stagger breaks so that vapers and smokers don't mix, or if you have the capacity consider designated vaping areas within offices. It doesn't even need to be a whole room; open areas like the kitchen or boardroom would suit, as vapour is very different from cigarette smoke as it will not leave a lasting bad smell, discolour ceilings and walls or produce messy ash. It is a cleaner and much healthier alternative and could make a big difference to your workforce's overall health. Imagine all the money you'd save if all those who smoked in your workforce switched to vaping. There would be far less sick days and hospital visits, making your team a whole lot more productive, you could even see positive effects on your business results!
Interestingly, vaping is still banned in many places and at many company outlets visited by the public. A previous article we wrote in April explained that vaping was banned in most restaurants like Zizzi and Prezzo as well as supermarkets such as Asda and M&S. But surely, after Public Health England’s advice and the Royal College of Physicians report, these businesses must consider a different approach to policy. Otherwise they’ll be cutting out 2.8 million people from their potential customer base.
E-cigs to stop teen cancer deaths and prolong life
In a recent study conducted by an international group of scientists from the US, Canada and Australia, they projected that e-cigarettes would lead to a 21% reduction in smoking-attributable deaths and 20% drop in life years lost, for people born in or after 1997. The scientists believe their model shows these results would not have happened if e-cigarettes were not an option.
There's a growing body of evidence on e-cigarettes, confirming them as a much safer alternative to cigarettes. With reputable health organisations issuing guidelines for their inclusion at work and in general life. There have been calls from both PHE and the RCP that the government should be careful of overregulation, and most importantly that the conveyance of e-cigarettes as an alternative to cigarettes is made very clear. We are eager to see how businesses and company workplaces alike will respond to these new guidelines. Science can only do so much, but it's only a matter of time before people start to listen. And see how e-cigarettes can make a positive change to public health.
Feature image credit: Shutterstock/ LDprod
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As a Forester on Canada’s west coast, I have had the opportunity to work in some pretty spectacular places. Often the work environment is very challenging: rugged terrain, terrible brush, along with weather that can sometimes be pretty nasty. These conditions make the reliable operation of a UAV challenging. Despite this, I have found the DJI Phantom 4Pro to be a great tool to have in the toolbox.
In most cases, I have used the Phantom 4 to assess the health and vigour of young forests. The live video feed and still photos captured by the UAV are an absolute game changer for these assessments. I get much better information than I can get by conventional means – and I am much more efficient! I still find that I have to walk into many areas, as there are some things that cannot be seen in the UAV imagery. However, these walks in the woods are much more targeted, as I have a better idea of where to go.
Although the live video feed is valuable, there is some time pressure because the flight times are limited to about 20-25 minutes. I have found that capturing photos for review when the UAV is on the ground allows me to examine areas of interest much more thoroughly. Normally, I will transfer the photos stored on the UAV micro SD card onto my iPad.
[pullquote align=”center”]This makes the SD card adapter my most prized UAV accessory![/pullquote]
Once the photos are on the iPad, I will often import them into Avenza Maps, where they appear as waypoints. I can then see where the photo was captured on top of a map. If I see something in the image that warrants a closer look, I can walk to within a couple of meters of the location. This is by far the most valuable workflow I have found for assessments of young forests! If this were all I could do with the imagery, it would be well worth the investment in the hardware and training!
I have also flown mapping missions to create 2D and 3D models. These can be very valuable ways to share information regarding the area of interest. However, it is not something I can create while I am in the field in a timely manner. Making imagery available quickly, to facilitate decisions while on site, is tremendously valuable!
I have had the Phantom 4Pro for a little over a year now. Although it is surprisingly easy to operate, I have found a few things that can be an issue if you are caught unprepared:
- Sudden increase in the wind speed. If you are downwind with a low battery you could end up having to perform an emergency landing: Practice emergency landings.
- Failure of the Tablet. I overheated my iPad on a hot summer day. This interrupted a flight until the iPad could be restarted.
- Flying until the battery is “Critically Low”. I did this intentionally to see what would happen. The UAV will land automatically, but you have little control over where it lands.
- UAV not level during takeoff. I was launching from a moderately steep road and flipped the Phantom on its back. I had to replace a couple of the propellers.
- Landing in a very tight spot. Essentially, I was landing in a location where there were trees on all sides of a 3-meter diameter cylinder. The obstacle avoidance system kicked in and prevented the UAV from moving horizontally in “Positioning” mode. By switching to “Attitude” mode, I could move horizontally, but it was very difficult to control the UAV in such a tight space: Avoid tight spots unless you are a much more skillful pilot than I am!
- Loss of signal. If you have set the return-to-home height and location appropriately, this is not a significant issue.
- Maintaining visual line of sight with the UAV can be very challenging in forested environments. Finding a location where you can launch and retrieve the UAV, plus see it throughout the mission, can require venturing off of the road. This has caused me to hand launch and retrieve the UAV on occasion.
- Hand Launch and Retrieval. If you Google “Drone Rotor Injuries”, you will see some graphic injuries that are the result of being struck by a drone. Don’t consider hand launching and retrieval without appropriate personal protective equipment. In addition to protecting your face, I would recommend gloves and a heavy jacket.
In the photo above, you can see that I am using one of our Ruxton Packs as a support for the UAV controller and tablet. The controller is secured on the pack with a custom bracket. I have found that it is much more comfortable and secure than holding it in my hand. We would really like to know if there are other UAV pilots that would like this option. | <urn:uuid:c56bb47c-0785-4f26-9227-b7a9c2de9264> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tabletexgear.eu/most-valuable-uav-accessory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.971253 | 1,007 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . .
— From “The New Colossus” by poet Emma Lazarus, inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
At the same time the news was showing festive celebrations on July 4 this year, it was broadcasting reports about the worsening humanitarian crisis at some of the migrant detention centers along the United States border with Mexico. Some commentators and interviewees were expressing the view that if the detained migrants were unhappy with the reportedly unacceptable conditions at the centers, then they should go back to where they came from, or not come at all. Those reports saddened me and seemed to contradict the welcoming message inscribed on the bronze plaque on the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal. It made me wonder, on a very personal level, what it means to be an American today. As a nation, do we still hold close to our hearts some of the basic tenets expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the famous poem by Emma Lazarus? Do we continue to believe that everyone is created equal, with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Do we take our democracy and the five basic freedoms protected by the First Amendment— freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom to petition the government—for granted? Have we forgotten what we represent to the rest of the world, and more importantly, to ourselves?
To me, there are many similarities between being an American and being a Buddhist. Both call upon us to take responsibility for our thoughts, our speech, and our actions. Being an American or a Buddhist means treating everyone equally, with respect and understanding. It means being inclusive and welcoming. Ideally, it means being able to see one’s own self in the conditions of all other human beings, and having compassion for their suffering. All of these principles and values help me to transcend the simple and foolish mind that I have, the one that discriminates, the one that suggests why should I care. As a Pure Land Buddhist, I practice by entrusting myself to Amida Buddha’s vow of unconditional salvation. One of the basic aspects of this vow is that all of us who are seeking clarity in life have the ability to change and to work toward achieving our highest potential. We do this by seeking refuge in the Buddha, the dharma (the teachings), and the sangha (our community). As I awaken to the vow, I begin to realize my shortcomings, my lack of wisdom and compassion, and the universal suffering of all beings.
The whole point of Buddhism is to awaken the sleeping mind, allowing us to realize that our existence is not centered around ourselves, and to understand and accept our deep connections and interdependence with all other beings and things. When I suffer, others suffer, and when others suffer, such as individuals seeking refuge, then I suffer as well.
We need to wake up to our own roles and responsibilities and thoughtfully to reflect on how for every action, there is a consequence.
Recently, some friends and I visited the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian located in the old Customs House down in Bowling Green park by the New York Harbor. On the cover of one of their brochures was a photograph of Cup’ik Eskimo doll maker Rosalie Paniyak’s 1987 soft sculpture of the Statue of Liberty, which was on display in an exhibit titled “My Love, Miss Liberty.” It reminded me that, as we contemplate what it means to be an American today, we must be cognizant of how America and one of its most beloved symbols, the Statue of Liberty, belong to all of us. We need to recognize that “We the People” refers to all peoples and all generations of Americans, past, present, and future.
The Statue of Liberty, originally named the “Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World” (Statue de la Liberté Éclairant le Monde), with her glowing and welcoming torch is a universal symbol of freedom that we celebrate with pride every Fourth of July. We must always remember not to take that freedom for granted, and to be mindful of the sacrifices and struggles of those seeking opportunity in America.
In Jodo Shinshu (Pure Land Buddhism), Amida Buddha’s unhindered light is always illuminating us, embracing and comforting us in its warmth. This light awakens me to my own foolishness, enabling me to perceive the suffering of others. How grateful I am that Amida Buddha—who understands the sufferings of all beings, in particular the ones who need it the most, and who would never forsake me or shut doors leading to hope to anyone—is in my life.
Namo Amida Butsu.
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Britain is hoping to put itself at the forefront of the fight against internet piracy. The Digital Economy Bill, which will be debated in parliament later on Tuesday, will give authorities the power to block pirate websites and cut people off from the Internet for file sharing. But protesters claim the measures are too extreme and threaten the very future of the web.
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On the hunt for a different kind of summer camp in Singapore, mama? Let littlies from the age of 4 learn and have fun at ISS Summer School Discovery
School summer break is the time when kids get to relax, renew and rediscover all over again, and that’s just what ISS Summer School Discovery is all about. With more than a decade of experience running summer school programmes for kids, ISS Summer School Discovery knows what makes their minds tick and learn, without them even cluing on! They’ve taken all that experience and refreshed the programme this year so it’s new and better than ever, with more flexibility and freedom of choice for kids to pursue their passions.
You get the flexibility of a one-week, two-week, three-week or four-week programme, and you can enrol your children for just mornings, just afternoons or all day, mama – whatever works for your family. Whatever the length, children are immersed in a stimulating and creative programme of learning and fun, all geared around this summer’s refreshing theme of Discovery.
A typical day at an ISS Summer School Discovery runs like this; mornings are for language immersion: improve English or Mandarin under the direction of qualified and experienced teachers. Boost speaking, reading and writing skills and see your child’s linguistic confidence grow. Meanwhile, in Creative Writing students learn to plot, develop and present a short narrative from their own imagination. This programme’s ideal for kiddos who already have a good grasp of the English language.
After lunch, Discovery Adventures start, with alternating weeks of “Multi-Discovery” and “Self-Discovery”. In Weeks 1 and 3, Multi-Discovery options in Science, Technology, Arts, and Creative pursuits allow kiddos to discover what they like best, allowing them to further pursue their passions in-depth during Self-Discovery weeks 2 and 4. All sessions are hands-on, developing your child’s confidence, skills base and knowledge.
Courses are suitable for children from 4 to 18 years old. No two days are the same, which means signing up for one week, two weeks, three weeks or all four is an option (and probably one your kids will be begging for!). Bonus points for ISS’s super-convenient location just off Orchard Road, too!
With around eight weeks of holiday time this summer, mamas can be assured their kiddos and teens have fun without letting their keen little minds get rusty. Let your child make new discoveries every day this summer, mama!
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Your daughter appears to enjoy her sporting activities very much. She also seems to be very determined to succeed which is the mark of a future champion.Swimming is particularly good and healthy for her and this sport exercises muscles and her breathing that other sports do not.She seems to be coping well.She sleeps well too which is good. In spite of her small appetite she is very healthy.She will tell you when she does not want to do a particular sport. The fact that she still has time to play at home is good and this is very important for her health as well.The only question is whether she needs to do the extra athletics as well as she has enough on her plate at this stage. This could be cut down if you are looking to reduce her exercise load.
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The majority of cryptocurrencies are convertible virtual currencies, according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). They can therefore be used in place of real money and serve as a medium of exchange, a store of value, a unit of account, and a unit of worth.
Additionally, it implies that any earnings or revenue derived from your cryptocurrencies are taxed. However, there is a lot to understand about how cryptocurrency is taxed because, depending on the circumstances, you might or might not owe taxes. Knowing when you will be taxed is crucial if you own or use cryptocurrencies so that you are not taken aback when the IRS comes to collect is.
Determine the value that a coin has or might have. If it has value for you, it's likely to have value for others as well. This kind of value is more abstract and non-tangible, like an NFT that you personally connect with. For instance, if this visual conjures up a pleasant recollection, you could want the NFT so that you might be reminded of it while simultaneously holding out hope for progress.
Some composers and musicians are producing NFTs out of their songs, and acquiring one helps the artists directly while also granting you ownership of the token (and whatever rights the artist granted when the token was minted). The aforementioned sports tokens might be the modern-day equivalent of trading cards or films.
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Here’s a DIY project to provide drip irrigation for a container garden, easy to do watch the video to see how.
Container gardens dry out quickly, which is why I built this system. This is based on using soaker hoses to wrap around the inside of each container, and attaching the hose to a water timer.
The hardest part of this drip irrigation for container garden system is getting the water. I can’t answer that one for you, as each situation is different. For this rooftop, we were able to bring the water up through a kitchen window in the back of the building. If you are going to bend the hose over a ledge, be sure to provide support where it bends over the wall, it can rub and leak.
The first thing to do when starting this is to uncoil the hose in the hot sun, and let it sit there for a few hours. This will allow the hose to straighten and you can work with it easier. Try to find 3/8″ soaker hose for this project. It bends easier.
To keep the hose inside the containers, you can use coat hanger wire cut into a U shape and pushed over the hose into the soil. Or use cable ties with holes drilled into the plastic pots. Rocks can also hold down the hose, but then you have to get rocks onto your balcony or roof. Not fun.
If you have a container garden on a patio, this is perfect. Water is easy to get to. I push the pots together to create a mass planting, and to hide the hose as it goes from pot to pot. As you can see from these photos, this system also works great for urban areas. How are you planning on using this? Let us know in the comments below. | <urn:uuid:6ec650ca-9e23-4418-a7da-f9cdce5a9128> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gardenfork.tv/drip-irrigation-container-garden-gf-video/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00269-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952401 | 365 | 1.851563 | 2 |
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Oil is an essential lubricant in your engine. It lets metal press against metal without damage. For example, it lubricates the pistons as they move up and down in the cylinders. Without oil, the metal-on-metal friction creates so much heat that eventually the surfaces weld themselves together and the engine seizes.
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Is Moody Blue a better name for a flavor than Glacier Freeze? How will consumers react to a color named Razzmatazz instead of Bright Orange? And what’s wrong with good old Fire Engine Red?
Two marketing professors have been studying these shades of meaning and publishing provocative papers on color-coding and what it does to buyers’ expectations. So we went to Barbara E. Kahn (at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) and Elizabeth G. Miller (at Boston College) for some answers.
Q: Is there anything wrong with good old “Fire Engine Red” to identify a nail polish?
We find in our research that consumers tend to react positively to ambiguous names and specific, unexpected names. If Fire Engine Red is surprising to consumers, then they will react more positively to it. If it’s not, then it’s similar to just calling it “red.”
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this description, but with the multitude of choices that a consumer faces every day, marketers are increasingly looking for ways to stand out and coming out with an unusual name is one way.
Well, usually the point of a color name on the side of a crayon is to describe the color hue or shade. At least that’s the way it was when we were kids! So it was a surprise to see a list of Crayola color names that were not descriptive. But in fact, when you think about it, if a child is holding the crayon in his or her hand, then s/he does know the color, and the name could indeed be whimsical.
Q: If a color or flavor name is not particularly descriptive – like “Voltage” – will the consumer react in a positive way?
Depends. What we found is that for some categories like candy or sweaters where the exact color or flavor need not be precise, having an ambiguous name makes the consumer stop and think – and that extra attention, that extra elaboration about the product, on the margin gives a boost to the product – which we have found to be positive. Although we did not find it in our research, one could imagine situations where there is some risk in not knowing the exact color or flavor, and then having an ambiguous name would not be positive.
Q: Then why would someone prefer an ambiguous name over a name with built-in meaning?
In our research, we found that when a consumer encountered an ambiguous name, s/he stopped and thought about it a little. And given that the information came from a marketer who is likely only to give positive information about the product, the consumer is apt to assume the information embedded in the name implies something positive about the brand. On the margin, this assumption about positive attributes adds value to the product.
Q: You have written about the consumer becoming “engaged” in solving the “puzzle” of a name. Is this speculation on your part, or is it based on the way our minds actually operate?
People like the world to make sense. So when they encounter surprising information, they try to make sense of it.
We found some evidence in our research of this process. When the name was not ambiguous but was just unusual, but in fact descriptive, then the consumer got some pleasure out of solving the “puzzle.” For example, when we presented sweaters that were the color of “coke red” – consumers enjoyed thinking about the unusual color description that in fact did identify the color.
Q: What about product categories that don’t rely on the sense of taste or smell? What happens then with wild and offbeat names?
Our research didn’t cover those areas.
Q: There was once a popcorn candy named “Screaming Yellow Zonkers” that got attention because of its wacky name. But sales stalled. Do colors or flavors such as “Deep Throat” or “Orgasm” have any real point of difference other than their edgy names?
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A period of excess precipitation since 1993 in the Devils Lake basin in northeastern North Dakota has caused extensive flooding of agricultural land and has raised the question of whether irrigation of agricultural crops to increase evapotranspiration (ET) might be an effective way to remove water from the basin. The objectives of this study were to compare ET estimates derived from application of the Mapping ET at High Resolution with Internalized Calibration (METRIC) algorithm for North Dakota conditions (METRICND) under irrigated and rainfed conditions and to assess the potential for irrigation to increase crop ET as a flood mitigation strategy. Weather data, land use maps, and Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper imagery from 2006, 2007, and 2008 were used as inputs to the METRICND model. The ET for irrigated crops (ETIrrigated) was estimated at five test sites from the Devils Lake Basin Water Utilization Test Project (DLBWUTP). The ET for the predominantly rainfed study area (ETRainfed) was estimated using land use maps to identify locations of the same crops as were present on the test sites. The METRICND model was compared to ET values derived from an eddy covariance (EC) system for approximately two months in 2007 at an irrigated alfalfa test site in the DLBWUTP; the mean absolute error between METRICND and the EC system for the comparison period was 0.51 mm d(-1). Linear regression of ET (in mm) for the test sites and the larger study area yielded ETIrrigated = 1.23 x ETRainfed + 4.77 with R-2 = 0.96, and a t-statistic indicated that the slope was greater than 0 at p = 0.001, indicating the potential for increased ET under irrigation. However, addition of large volumes of irrigation water to the predominantly poorly drained soils in the basin will cause waterlogging and trafficability problems. Installation of subsurface drainage may help alleviate waterlogging, improve crop productivity, and increase ET, but subsurface drainage brings its own complications of disposal of the drained water, salinity of the drainage effluent, and possible sodicity problems on some soils. | <urn:uuid:351b4621-fd7a-449e-9d58-2b864f193cf9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.uludag.edu.tr/yayin/1c44d25c-95d0-4341-9721-116e81de9914/evapotranspiration-mapping-with-metric-to-evaluate-effectiveness-of-irrigation-in-flood-mitigation-for-the-devils-lake-basin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.945415 | 450 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Demographics and the End of the Savior State (May 17, 2010)
Germany is well down the path to national insolvency--a path shared by all developed nations attempting to fund unsustainable Savior States.
That the Savior State appeared sustainable was an accidental coincidence of cheap oil and favorable demographics. The notion that a central government could provide cradle-to-grave care for all its citizenry was only possible when the worker-to-retiree/recipient was on the order of 10-to-1 or 5-to-1. Now that it is effectively 2-to-1 in most of the developed world, the demographics have turned decidedly unfavorable.
Correspondent Michael M. submitted this report on taxes and demographics in Germany, the Eurozone's largest economy and the world's biggest exporter.
Regarding your article Why the Eurozone Is Doomed, I want to add some insights from myself growing up in Germany, and being still in close contact to friends during the time 1996 to 2007, when I lived in Switzerland.
Thank you, Michael, for a thought-provoking commentary on this critical topic.
We can conclude that whatever real growth (i.e. adjusted for inflation) Germany has experienced in the past 15 years, most of it has simply gone into the bottomless black hole of Social Security spending for an increasingly aging populace.
Germany is not alone in its demographics. One of the saddest images I retain from my first trip to Japan in 1992 was a rural school, abandoned for lack of students. While this might be attributed to the movement of young people from the countryside to the cities, it also reflects Japan's low birth rate.
Here in the U.S. the trends are just as irreversible. Though the U.S. maintains a "replacement" birthrate of around 2.0 live births per female, as unemployment continues rising then it's difficult to see how immigration can continue adding new taxpaying citizens: if there are no jobs, the incentive to come to America dissipates.
Medical costs continue climbing far faster than the population or GDP. Sickcare already absorbs some 17% of the U.S. economy, a staggering sum which rises 7-10% annually regardless of recession, "cost savings," new technology" and any other factor which is supposed to "save" the system.
This chart is a few years old and "official," so it reflects all sorts of hopeful extrapolations (GDP rises at 3% forever, etc.). From the present, we can already say the "crisis" foreseen in 2030 is already here: Social Security payroll taxes no longer cover Social Security costs.
Federal borrowing and debt are almost tracking this exponential curve:
As interest rates and crushing structural deficits rise, interest on the Federal debt will absorb half the Federal budget:
Medicare and Medicaid will soon take half the Federal budget:
So if interest takes half the budget, and Medicare/Medicaid take the other half, then what's left for Defense/global Empire? Zero. Social Security? Zero. Highways? Zero. Education? Zero. And so on: zero for any other spending.
There is simply no way to reconcile these numbers: there may well be fewer than 120 million people with paying jobs in a few years, even as retirees drawing Social Security and Medicare total 67 million people. Add in millions drawing Medicaid (for low-income residents without healthcare insurance), 40-50 million people drawing food stamps, millions of veterans and their spouses receiving Veterans Administration benefits, etc. and you realize the demographic pyramid has inverted: each worker will be carrying one recipient of Federal (Savior State) benefits.
That is unsustainable.
I have often addressed the decline of paying work:
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Korean and U.S. Green Parties joint statement against deployment of U.S. missile program in Korea
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Korean Greens and the Green Party of the United States published a joint statement on Monday, Sept. 19 against deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) in South Korea. The statement follows below.
THAAD is a U.S. Armed Forces anti-ballistic missile system designed to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate range ballistic missiles. On Sept. 9, 2016, President Obama announced that THAAD batteries would be sited in South Korea and Japan in the wake of a North Korean nuclear bomb test.
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“The last thing our world needs is a new nuclear arms race. We support the Korean Greens’ call to stop THAAD and redirect the funds to education, medicine, and the fight against climate change,” said Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2016 nominee for president.
The Green Party of the United States and Korea Green Party, along with Green Parties throughout the world, count nonviolence as a key value and support diplomacy and political solutions instead of military action. Green Parties call for global nuclear disarmament.
Statement on Deployment of THAAD in Korea
September 19, 2016
On July 8, South Korean and U.S. governments launched formal talks on deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD). On July 12, the Korean government decided on Seongju in North Gyeongsang Province as the best location for THAAD without any discussion.
Korean and U.S. Greens strongly urge cancelling THAAD, which will cause tensions in northeast Asia, increase the arms race, and eventually harm efforts towards global peace. THAAD should not be deployed in any location in Korea including Seongju.
THAAD threatens peace. The Korean government says that THAAD is necessary as a defensive strategy against North Korea’s missile system, but the program only intimidates North Korea.
Furthermore, China and Russia feel threatened by THAAD because it helps U.S. radar systems locate missiles in their countries. Deploying THAAD would involve Korea in the U.S. missile defense system. China and Russia are strongly opposed to the U.S. missile defense system, while Korea, Japan, and U.S. prefer to move forward in enacting it.
THAAD may trigger an arms race among the countries surrounding the two Koreas, the only divided county in the world. Military tension will threaten the Korean Peninsula and world peace. Cancelling THAAD will help preserve peace.
The Korean government made its decision on a location for THAAD and notified Seongju citizens without allowing public discussion. Democracy is severely damaged when the right to participate in decision-making is obstructed.
On August 10, 100,000 people signed a petition demanding reversal of the decision to deploy THAAD in South Korea. Citizens are already aware that deploying THAAD will diminish chances for peace for both Korea and U.S. citizens, and will only profit Lockheed Martin, which was awarded the contract for the THAAD system.
Greens in Korea and the U.S. agree that funding for a Korea-U.S. military defense system should be transferred to education, medicine, and the fight against climate change.
The governments of both nations must focus on preserving peace in the Korean Peninsula, through negotiation. Korean and U.S. Greens call on them to reverse the decision to deploy THAAD.
Korean and U.S. Greens are committed to achieving peace in collaboration and solidarity.
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U.S. to Deploy THAAD Missile Battery to South Korea
U.S. Department of Defense, July 8, 2016
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Netrek is Mind Hockey on the Net
On any one day, about 5,000 people will find their way to a couple of nodes on the Net and pick up a game of Netrek. Playing Netrek is like playing team chess on speed, or playing mind hockey. At first glance, the game's spare and simple graphics resemble the classic old '70s video arcade game, Spacewar. But Netrek bears all the marks of a raging '90s phenomenon: It's graphical, it's played very, very fast, and it is played in teams, on the Net.
Someday we'll look back at the videogame era of the 1980s and '90s, and wonder why anyone played solitary games. How Dull! How sorry.
In Netrek, you storm planets in a squadron of ships piloted by you and your teammates. You sit at your console and when you fire a missile, everyone else playing the game, whether they are in Denmark or Pittsburgh, watches it zing to its target. Sixteen people romp in intergalactic real-time dogfights.
Netrek was invented by Berkeley undergraduate students Chris Guthrie and Ed James about five years ago. It began as a game called X-Trek and was played over the campus network on X-windows machines. That early version was later revamped into Netrek by three other Berkeley students, Scott Silvey, Kevin Smith and Terence Chang. Now there's a league - The International Netrek League (INL) - with eighteen teams that engage in weekly games and seasonal playoffs. Chang went on to graduate work at Carnegie Mellon University, and now CMU and Berkeley are the heavyweight teams in the Netrek League. CMU has a reputation for "playing with an attitude and being into big ships," Chang says.
Team names sound like names of bands. The CMU team is "EIEIO." Los Angeles has "Will Riot for Food." Seattle has "Lagg U," a joke on the frustrating time delay that long-distance Internet play sometimes induces. The Berkeley team calls itself the Golden Bears, in mock reference to the Berkeley sports program. Most of the Berkeley guys are former students who gather every Saturday afternoon in the computer science building to play in cyberspace. They probably could login from their home nodes, and sometimes they do, but in a very telling reversal of what we expect from network culture, they like to drive once a week to the campus and cram themselves into a couple of work cubicles to play each other over the Internet, and then go for a beer afterwards. Could be an Iron John thing.
I like to think of Netrek as the first online sports game. Two teams of eight players meet in a Netrek arena - a local "galaxy" with 40 planets in it. The object of the game is to capture the planets by ferrying troops onto them. So while you and your seven teammates are trying to transport your armies to the far edge of the galaxy, the opposing team is sacking your established planets and filling them with its troops. The overt military plot won't win any theme awards, but as I said, the game is like team chess. The thrill comes from the thousands of moves, set-ups, and real-time team plays that can happen in this spare, almost archetypal game. | <urn:uuid:a852faab-fc57-442d-95f2-99c4b578350d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wired.com/1993/06/netrek/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.970341 | 683 | 1.617188 | 2 |
A proposed global intellectual-property treaty no longer nudges the international community to develop “three strikes” protocols to suspend internet connections of customers caught downloading copyrighted works, according to a draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement released Tuesday.
The official draft of the proposed intellectual property accord was released after months of leaks and assertions by the Obama administration that it was a classified national security secret.
Still, critics of the proposal said Tuesday that a controversial theme in the draft (.pdf) remains: that the United States was “attempting to export a regulatory regime that favors big media companies at the expense of consumers and innovators,” according to Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C., digital rights group.
The group and others were, in part, referring to the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Under the DMCA, internet service providers are responsible for the infringing material hosted on their networks if they fail to remove the content at the rights holder’s request.
That is a sea change to Canadian copyright statutes, for example. “That is inconsistent with Canadian law, which has no such requirement,” said Michael Geist, an ACTA expert at the University of Ottawa.
A biggest surprise in the official draft, which is being hammered out by the United States, Canada, the European Union, Japan and dozens of others, is the removal of a controversial U.S.-backed footnote that appeared in an unofficial, yet previously leaked version. The footnote provided for “the termination in appropriate circumstances of subscriptions and accounts on the service provider’s system or network of repeat infringers.”
Last month, the European Parliament voted not to approve ACTA if it contained these so-called “three strikes” or graduated response” termination requirements.
Those policies are the holy grail of internet-IP enforcement, staunchly backed by the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America.
Negotiating entities include Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and Switzerland the United States and the European Union.
The ACTA negotiators concluded meetings last week in New Zealand and are expected to meet in Switzerland in June. The accord is expected to be completed by year’s end.
Congressional authorization is not required.
- ACTA Draft: No Internet for Copyright Scofflaws
- Europe Worries U.S. Bowing to ‘Industry’ in ACTA Talks
- Obama Administration Declares Proposed IP Treaty a ‘National Security Secret
- Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest
- Here’s That Leaked Copyright Treaty Document
- Report: U.S. Fears Public Scrutiny Would Scuttle IP Treaty Talks
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Back in July, a 300-foot crane collapsed at a Houston refinery and killed four workers: Marion âScooterâ Hubert Odom III, 41; John D. Henry, 33; Daniel âDJâ Lee Johnson, 30; and Rocky Dale Strength, 30. Now, federal regulators have reported that the craneâs operator, who was among those killed, had never been in the machineâs cab before that day and was not qualified to operate it. Dane Schiller writes in the Houston Chronicle:
âNot only was the crane operator inadequately trained, but the project superintendent did not ensure the crane did not reach hazardous conditions,â OSHA area director Mark Briggs said. â¦
The employer did not ensure the crane operator had specific training on the craneâs operation, controls, load charges and a safety device, according to a citation.
OSHA is proposing that Louisiana-based Deep South Crane and Rigging pay $71,500 in fines that include six âseriousâ violations, as well as a repeat violation of failing to ensure a worker was adequately trained.
Briggs, the OSHA area director, told the Chronicle that âit is possible this tragedy could have been preventedâ if OSHAâs regulations and industry standards had been followed. However, as Celeste pointed out when the collapse occurred, OSHA has also been dragging its feet on a crane and derrick standard thatâs been in the works for years.
In other news:
New York Times: Household employers who donât pay taxes and file appropriate paperwork for babysitters, housekeepers, and other such employees may deprive these workers of the chance to get Social Security payments when they retire and workersâ compensation if theyâre injured on the job.
BBC: Servicemen stationed on Christmas Island and exposed to radiation during testing of Britainâs early nuclear bombs are seeking compensation for physical and mental damage.
Washington Post: The Army is considering a fitness camp for recruits who flunk induction physicals because theyâre overweight (47,447 potential recruits have failed the test over the past four years).
New York Times: As President Obama highlights the importance of science, some scientists hope heâll work to increase the number of women in top scientific jobs.
NIOSH: Emergency medical service responders now have better personal protective equipment available to them, thanks to work by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Fire Protection Association. | <urn:uuid:892a548e-89cd-4d0d-834d-df2dad57003d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thepumphandle.org/2009/01/26/occupational-health-new-roundup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.951803 | 505 | 2.203125 | 2 |
On January 29, the Second Circuit issued an opinion in United States v. Allen holding that when police stand outside the threshold of a home while arresting a suspect who stands inside his home, the procedure qualifies as a “home arrest” and therefore, absent exigent circumstances, requires a warrant. As the court describes the case, it is literally “liminal” in that it is a borderline case and concerns the threshold of the home. Despite being at the border, it is an important case that drives home the centrality of the home and the associated privacy of that sacred domain, by erring on the side of requiring a warrant where the case could potentially have gone either way.
Home Arrests Require a Warrant
In Payton v. New York, the U.S. Supreme Court held that when police arrest a suspect in the suspect’s home, the Fourth Amendment requires that they first obtain an arrest warrant (absent an exigent circumstance excusing the failure to get a warrant). Unlike arrests in public, an arrest in a suspect’s home implicates not only the suspect’s interest in liberty (which is plainly implicated in every arrest) but also his interest in privacy and, in particular, the privacy of his home, often singled out for greater protection than the other venues and items in which we enjoy the protection of the Fourth Amendment.
In the case that began this column, United States v. Allen, the Second Circuit considered the question whether an arrest in which the police stand outside the threshold of the suspect’s home while the suspect stands inside his home is a “home” arrest for purposes of Payton or whether it is a public arrest, permissible without an arrest warrant. The reason that one might think such an arrest is a “public” arrest at all is that when individuals open their doors voluntarily to the police or to the public, they are said to “knowingly expose” whatever becomes visible at that point, so that opening the door may arguably turn the threshold of the home into public space.
The issue of threshold arrests (and their status as public or private) mattered in Allen, because immediately after Allen was placed under arrest (by being told that “would need to come down to the police station to be processed for [an] assault” of which he stood accused), Allen needed to retrieve his shoes and tell his 12-year-old daughter that he would be leaving with the officers. To do so, the officers explained, he had to be accompanied by officers, which he was. In the course of following him through his house, the police saw drug paraphernalia, which became part of the foundation for a later search warrant that turned up a handgun, on the basis of which Allen was subsequently re-arrested and charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. It was on this charge that Allen entered a conditional guilty plea, reserving his right to appeal the denial of his motion to suppress the firearm (along with statements that he had made) as the fruit of the original warrantless home arrest allegedly conducted in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
In reversing the district court’s denial of Allen’s suppression motion, and in finding that he was in fact arrested “at home” under the Payton test, the Second Circuit relied in part on a case that it viewed as binding precedent and that was cited favorably by the U.S. Supreme Court in Payton, a 1978 case called United States v. Reed. As the majority made clear, however, it views the result not only as required by Reed but as the right result, independent of the precedent.
One thing that potentially makes this result somewhat challenging to defend is the fact that as the court conceded, “law enforcement officers, like any other citizens, have an implied license to approach a home, knock on the door, and try to speak with the occupants.” It might therefore seem that if the police, in the course of their conversation with the suspect, develop probable cause to arrest him, they should be able to do so without a warrant, so long as they do not first enter his home.
Yet the Supreme Court has said, in Florida v. Jardines, that “[t]he scope of [the implied license to approach a home, knock, etc.]—express or implied—is limited not only to a particular area but also to a specific purpose.” Though police officers’ purpose ordinarily does not matter if their conduct is itself reasonable, under Whren v. United States, the Court in Jardines did focus on police purpose (a drug sniff rather than a short visit) in ruling the conduct there unconstitutional. The Second Circuit, persuasively, suggested that the permissible purpose (for which an approach, a knock, and an attempt to speak can occur) does not include conducting a warrantless arrest, and the police in Allen had already decided to arrest the suspect (and had probable cause to do so) before they even came to his door. The officers were not, in other words, seeking to have a conversation (like any citizen might) but were instead specifically seeking to conduct a warrantless arrest of a man as he stood inside his home.
In one sense, we may wonder, if police may knock on people’s doors without probable cause and conduct nominally voluntary conversations across the threshold, what makes it so much worse for the police to be able to arrest their suspect across the threshold as well? One answer is that if a suspect is aware of his rights (a presumption that the law, perhaps unfortunately, makes of suspects), then he knows that he can terminate an unwanted conversation across the threshold with the police, if police do not have probable cause to arrest him (or any evident intention of arresting him). The informed suspect can even refuse to answer the door when the police knock, so long as they have no authority to detain him.
As unrealistic as it may seem for the person in this scenario to exercise his right to exclude the police from his life, the exercise of that right becomes impossible once he is arrested. Once he is told that he must come with the police to the stationhouse to be processed for an alleged assault, he loses his right to cut off contact with the police. At this point, he is in his home, with all of the vulnerability that that implies (in his case, not wearing shoes, and having a young daughter in the house to whom he needed to communicate his imminent arrest). And the police accordingly get immediate access to the inside of his home, as they have the “’right to remain literally at [an arrestee’s] elbow,” the sort of access that Payton was meant to guard against: the invasion of a suspect’s home without a warrant of any kind, absent an exigent circumstance. And because the police already had probable cause and the intent to arrest Allen when they came to his door, it was entirely foreseeable (as it generally is, when a regular home arrest is conducted) that police would have the opportunity to cross the threshold of Allen’s home and see the personal and private items that he kept in this sacred space.
There is apparently a split of authority on the issue presented in this case. Some circuits hold that because Payton said that “physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed,” it follows that police must physically cross the threshold and enter the home before there can be a Payton home arrest. Other circuits, relying in part on a distinction (not elaborated in this column) that the Second Circuit rejects, say that officers need not physically enter the home to trigger Payton, because “it is the location of the arrested person, and not the arresting agents, that determines whether an arrest occurs within a home.” See United States v. Reeves, 524 F.3d 1161, 1165 (10th Cir. 2008).
Contrary to the above quote from the Tenth Circuit, however, “the location of … the arresting agents” certainly can determine “whether an arrest occurs within a home.” If police enter the home, then they have effected a home arrest for purposes of Payton, even if the suspect is not in the house at the time (indeed, perhaps especially if the suspect is not at home, since police will then likely search throughout the house to find him before satisfying themselves that he is not there). But “the location of the arrested person” should also matter, maybe just as much. This is not only because of the likely subsequent invasion of privacy that will happen shortly, and that, predictably, happened in Allen. It is because of the tremendous vulnerability and exposure that a person feels when he stands inside the threshold of his home, literally held in place by a police officer’s announcement that he is under arrest. A suspect at home is in the space where he expects and is entitled to feel safest and most comfortable, where he has the right to exclude unwanted others, and where he has suddenly become divested of these rights. The Second Circuit was right to hold that arrests at the threshold of the home are indeed home arrests. They will certainly be experienced as such by the private individual who has—perhaps voluntarily—opened his door but may no longer close it behind him and retreat into his refuge from the world outside. | <urn:uuid:713792b3-6b40-4480-ae2d-4742eca531fe> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://verdict.justia.com/2016/02/17/the-second-circuit-honors-the-threshold-of-the-home-in-a-fourth-amendment-opinion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719079.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00033-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980173 | 1,930 | 1.78125 | 2 |
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Imagine laying on a Sound Table, putting on 3D Virtual Reality glasses, looking down and seeing a Virtual Reality Image of inside of you body. You could choose to see a graphic of each organ, bone, muscle, or your chakras or auras. You or your practitioner could then place a healing visual inside a particular part of your body. A corresponding healing sound would then automatically moved up and down on the sound table (massage table with speakers mounted on the bottom), so you feel the sound inside your body precisely where you are seeing the visual in 3D.
At the Institute we are developing complete databases of sounds (frequencies, timbres and music) and visuals for each part of the body, and for specific issue. You could have a whole mix spread throughout your body. Imagine having a symphony placed throughout your body both visually and aurally.
However, in one respect, this is still the allopathic model, which focuses on what is wrong. We will also be using sounds and visuals to light up all of your chakras and auras -- your entire light body -- with the goal accessing higher states of consciousness, your higher self, your Soul, and a direct connection to Source where you are one with everything in the Universe.
We are partnering with various companies that have developed assessment systems such as Nutri-Energetics and voice analysis systems. Based on the assessment specific sounds, colors and shapes will automatically be moved inside of organs and various parts of the body.
The next step is to partner with doctors and facilities in the medical field to create very specific medical devices for a full range of organs, tissues cells and diseases.
We have initiated a project to map all of the frequencies of every part of the body. The project is called the GeneOM project. The goal is to map all of the frequencies and rhythms in the body, but since many of these will be different from person to person, we will be looking for the musical intervals or relationships between the various parts of the body. The assumption is that the musical intervals between different parts of the body will be the same from person to person. That is, in a healthy person. We assume that if someone is sick that the musical intervals will be off -- kind of like one person in the symphony being sick or out of tune. We should then be able to find the template of healthy musical intervals for a typical healthy human. We can then use that symphony of sounds to resonate people back into healthy functioning.
Ultimately, we will be able to find the template of perfection that a particular individual is born with, and resonate a more specific symphony of harmony. Ultimately, you will be able to step into an image of your own body and have biological responses in your body tell the computer what frequencies, colors and shapes are needed.
Check out the GeneOM website (under construction) by CLICKING HERE.
The Institute is currently developing a system that uses 3D visuals of sounds to control a mixing board. The unit is called the Virtual Mixer. Put on 3D glasses and you will be able to see visuals of each sound in a mix floating between the speakers right where the actual sounds are left and right in the stereo field. You can then "grab" the visuals of sounds with a dataglove and move them around. This sends information to the mixer (or software), which actually moves the sounds around between the speakers. You can control all the functions in a recording studio including volume, panning (left/right placement), equalization and effects. In full Virtual Reality and Surround Sound you can actually see sounds floating around the room. With a Dataglove you can grab the sounds and throw them around the room.
For more information on the Virtual Mixer and to see many visuals of mixes (including Videos of Mixes in real time) CLICK HERE.
You can also check out the book, "The Art of Mixing" that uses visuals of mixes to explain how to mix.
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When Xiao Feng’s parents brought him to the hospital, they were concerned that he was having difficulty breathing and abdominal swelling. They could not have possibly expected what doctors found after extensive testing: Feng’s undeveloped twin was inside his stomach, and he had to have an operation to “give birth” to the fetus.
Feng was diagnosed with a rare case of cryptodidymus. Cryptodidymus is a term that describes conjoined twins, one of whom is concealed in a part of the other's body. These cases are extremely rare, characterized by a poorly developed “parasitic twin,” which is pretty much still a medical anomaly. According to Metro, a conjoined twin can only survive as a parasite if it is not inside the other twin.
In Feng’s case, the twin growing inside of him took up about two-thirds of his stomach. It had grown to be about 10 inches. It also developed a spine, fingers, and toes.
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Robot ape to colonize the Moon?
July 2, 2013
The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the University of Bremen are working on an ape-like robot called the iStruct Demonstrator that they classify as a “Space Robot.”
Lately the mechanical monkey has been practicing how to walk and balance in the center’s mock lunar landscape, Gizmag reports.
An ape-like body has certain benefits over a wheeled robot: its four-legged stance is stable when scrambling over obstacles or hilly terrain, and it can easily right itself if it falls over.
Then when it needs to do something with its hand(s), it could feasibly balance on its hind legs to free them up for manual work. The CHIMP robot currently being developed for the DARPA Robotics Challenge has adopted a similar strategy.
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Former Royal Dutch army soldier Jitse Akse traveled to Syria last year to join Kurdish rebels in their fight against ISIS. He says he decided to leave for Syria after ISIS terrorists laid siege on the Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobani, leaving Kurdish fighters scrambling to keep control of the town.
Akse had served with an elite force in the Dutch army, specialized in rapid air deployment, which he joined when he was 17 in 1986. In an interview with Dutch newspaper Leeuwarder Courant, Akse said that he killed ISIS fighters as a sniper in Syria. Asked how many ISIS troops he killed, he said “I’d rather don’t say that,” but when asked if it was more than two he said “yes.”
Akse’s reluctance to specify how many ISIS fighters he killed was because he was well aware of the potential risks he faces now that he’s back in The Netherlands. His fears were well-founded, as he was soon arrested at gunpoint by Dutch police, who put a bag over his head and took him away on Jan. 13.
He now faces murder charges for the ISIS terrorists he killed in Syria. Prosecutors are using the very public statements Akse wrote on his Facebook account about why he joined the fight against ISIS, as well as statements made by Akse in Dutch media acknowledging that he had killed.
Under Dutch law, use of force is only justified in rare cases of self-defense. Even though The Netherlands is providing military support for a U.S. led coalition against ISIS, when it comes to its civilians, it’s a different matter.
“A Dutch citizen is not allowed to go join a war on his own initiative, and commit crimes there,” public prosecutor Jirko Patist told regional TV channel Omroep Gelderland.
Akse was released after handing over his passport pending a police investigation. He is currently hiding in an undisclosed location, as it is not only the Dutch justice system he has to worry about. ISIS loyalists may be seeking to kill him in revenge.
Why He Went
In the interview with Leeuwarder Courant, Akse said that joined the army because his father and several of his uncles had also served. During his time in the army he was deployed in former Yugoslavia where Dutch troops were deployed as part of a U.N. peacekeeping force.
After his contract ended in the army, Akse said he never completely found his way back in society as a civilian. “Civil society is not my world,” he said.
In the interview Akse acknowledged that the opportunity to go back to the frontline brought a long-sought tension back in his life.
Fighting Alongside the Kurds
After being recruited by Kurdish fighters through Facebook, and receiving some training, Akse became part of a unit of about 50 Kurdish fighters, part of the volunteer Kurdish People’s Protection Units.
Akse learned how to use Russian weapons, and became adept at using the Russian Dragunov sniper rifle. In the interview he says he could fire accurately with the rifle for a range of 1300 meters (4265 foot). He was often stationed in a water-tower from which he targeted the ISIS fighters, earning him the nickname ‘The Dutch Falcon of Rojava.’
Where to next?
Akse’s intention when returning to The Netherlands was to stay there for a few weeks, after which he was planning to go back to join the Kurds in their fight. On his Facebook account, which has seen numerous well-wishes and messages of support by Akse’s friends, veterans, and those supporting his cause, Akse asked for donations for equipment he needed such as a rifle-scope and an ammunition magazine pouch.
For now, though, Akse will not be returning to Syria anytime soon, as the police investigation is ongoing.
Since Akse’s arrest earlier this month, there has been an outpour of public support on social media. A petition to support Akse has received nearly 63,000 signatures. Comments accompanying the petition are describing Akse as hero, such as: “The world needs more heroes like Akse,” “This man deserves a medal,” and “Justive for Jitse.”
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The increase in the cost of living is affecting a lot of families, and many of us are making cut-backs in a bid to save money. In this blog we discuss tips on how to save money on food and feed your family on a budget.
Feed Your Family On A Budget- Planning
Plan your meals
Try planning your meals for the week and buying your ingredients in one or two bigger shops. If we end up buying food and ingredients each day, we end up spending more (particularly when there are so many temptations when shopping!). Writing a shopping list can help us stick to buying the things we need and ensure we don’t buy things we already have.
Take note of what’s in your cupboards
Look for low cost recipes
Low cost recipes doesn’t mean they have to be less tasty! There are several websites that provide low cost recipes. Some of our favourites include:
- First Steps Nutrition- Simple, cost-effective ideas for the whole family
- Better Health, Healthier Families meal mixer
- NHS Choices Healthy recipe section
- BBC Good Food.
Compare the cost of your trolley
There are a number of apps and websites that allow you to compare food prices across the main supermarkets. You can also check prices on the supermarket websites before you visit. Examples of price comparison websites include:
Feed Your Family On A Budget- Shopping
Avoid shopping when you’re hungry
This might seem a strange tip, but research shows we’re more impulsive and buy more food when we’re hungry. We are also more likely to pick quick convenient options, and foods higher in fat, salt and sugar.
Buy foods in their whole form
Instead of buying pre- chopped foods, such as fruits and vegetables, buy them whole and prepare them yourself at home. This is because supermarkets tend to charge more for pre- prepared foods. A lot of foods could be chopped/ prepared at home and then frozen, to save you time when cooking at a later date. It’s also a great way to cut down on food waste. For example, you can freeze herbs, garlic, onion, ginger, fruits and vegetables.
Frozen fruits and vegetables are usually cheaper than fresh. They contain the same nutrients and are picked at their peak. Some frozen fruits and vegetables will come pre- prepared and ready to use.
Buy in bulk
If you can, buy store cupboard items, such as pasta, rice, lentils and other long life items, in bulk. This is often the cheapest way to buy them.
Compare the price of supermarket own brands with popular branded products and you’ll see a huge difference in price! While the price is cheaper, the taste, quality and nutritional value is usually the same. For example, supermarket own brand breakfast wheat biscuits cost £0.74 whereas the leading brand cost around £3.00.
Use the stoop- to- rise method
This may sound strange when shopping but look at the bottom and top of shelves for cheaper brands and supermarket own products. Brands pay supermarkets money to be placed at eye level so they catch our attention first.
Sign up for supermarket loyalty schemes
Supermarkets are all in competition with one another, and so they have to make sure they are competitively priced and offer their customers good deals. Many supermarkets have loyalty and points schemes and will send you money- off vouchers, discount coupons and special offers. Sign up today!
Be cautious of special offers and buy one get one free offers
Buy-one-get-one-free deals are there to incite us. Some special offers can actually be more expensive than products not on sale, so always check the original price to see if you’re getting a good deal.
End of day discounts
Look out for markdowns on perishables at the end of the shopping day, as you may be able to bag yourself a great saving! As a rough guide, the first discounts tend to appear mid-morning, with heavier discounts beginning early evening. Just make sure you use it before it’s use-by-date and it doesn’t go off sooner than expected. You may be able to freeze items and use them at a later date.
Feed Your Family On A Budget- In the Kitchen
Cook from scratch
Cooking at home is often much cheaper compared to buying convince meals and takeaway foods. If you enjoy eating out or having takeaways, you could try to cut back on the number you have. A nice alternative, is to create a ‘fakeaway’. Check out our fakeaway blog for recipe inspiration.
According to NHS, the average family in the UK throws away around £60 of good food every month. Planning meals and sticking to your shopping list can help reduce waste, but if you notice items are getting close to their use-by date, freeze them!
Bread is one of the most wasted household foods items. Try freezing it, preferably in portions (for convenience) and when it’s at its freshest. Make sure you store it in a freezer bag to avoid freezer burn.
For more tips on reducing food waste, check out our blog ‘How to reduce food waste‘.
Have a meat/ fish free day/s
Try having some meat free days in the week, where you choose an alternative protein source, such as beans, lentils, pulses, tofu, soya etc. They’re usually much cheaper and contain lots of beneficial nutrients!
Buy cheaper cuts of meat
If you don’t mind spending a little more time cooking, try opting for cheaper cuts of meat, such as braising steak. Cooking these meats slowly will break down the fibre in them making them super tasty at a lower cost.
Healthy Start Scheme
Find out if you qualify for the Healthy Start Scheme. This is a scheme that entitles some families to free vouchers every week to spend on cows milk, fruits, vegetables and vitamin drops for children.
Tip: The First Steps Nutrition Trust’s recipe book Simple, cost-effective ideas for the whole family, uses ingredients that can be purchased with Healthy Start vouchers.
A note on formula milk
If you offer your baby formula milk, first infant formula is the only formula your baby needs (unless advised a health care professional).
Like the cost of food in general, you’ve probably noticed that the prices of formula milk has risen. Whilst all infant formula available on the UK market comply with the UK regulations, they vary widely in price. A higher price does not mean that it is better for your baby, it usually reflects the addition of non-essential ingredients and a higher spend on brand promotion.
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Hammana is a town in Lebanon about 26 km east of Beirut.
The village is known for Cherry Day, happening each year, where people can participate in the cherry-picking in an addition to many other events, street theatre, music, art,…
But the village is known for its waterfall, called Chaghour, which allowed us to have an unknown activity, Canyoning or Canyoneering in the U.S., which is rappeling in the waterfall.
The village has also a 14th-century house, Mezher palace, former residence of the poet Alphonse de Lamartine.
Not to forget Hammana Artist House, a multidisciplinary art residency space with a focus on performing arts.
an easy walk to reach the waterfall
The Canyoning activity, for about 2 hours depending on the number of the participants
Visit Al Mezher Palace
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(JNS.org) A group of converts to Judaism in Uganda has gained official recognition from the Jewish Agency for Israel.
In a letter to Rabbi Andrew Sacks, who serves as the head of the Conservative movement in Israel, the Jewish Agency confirmed that “as of 2009, we view the Abayudaya in Uganda as a recognized community registered with the Masorti-Olami world Conservative movement,” Haaretz reported.
Additionally, the letter also stated that the Jewish Agency recognizes the authority of Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, who serves as the spiritual head of the Ugandan Jewish community.
The recognition paves the way for Uganda’s Jewish community to become eligible for Israeli citizenship under Israel’s Law of Return. The recognition also will allow members of the community to obtain visas from Israel’s Interior Ministry in order to study at yeshivas in the Jewish state.
The Abayudaya Jewish community originally splintered off from Christianity in the early 20th century, when its members began observing Jewish laws and customs. In 2002, the 1,500-member community was formally converted to Judaism by a Conservative rabbinical court. Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, however, only accepts Orthodox conversions. | <urn:uuid:6d7bd264-30cc-4243-bca5-61a713028cf5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2016/4/12/ugandan-jewish-community-gains-official-recognition-from-jewish-agency | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00237-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944168 | 258 | 1.734375 | 2 |
What is mission creep or drift? A disease that inflicts nonprofits that chase after money. Why is mission creep such a dread disease? You waste energy for short-term gain that you otherwise would invest to gain a sustainable income.
Karen’s Mission Creep Stopper
When you identify a new revenue opportunity, use this question to avoid mission drift.
A “no” indicates mission drift. Still baffled? Try:
Inoculate Yourself Against the Creep
Do you know the ultimate cure for mission creep? A steady focus on the activities you know will bring your sustainability and more. To identify your best options, determine your income strategy. My book, 7 Nonprofit Income Streams outlines how to create customized strategies. Read the first chapter for free.
Before founding her firm, Karen Eber Davis developed the Sarasota County Community Development Block Grant Program. Under her leadership, this infant program received the National Association of Counties National Affordable Housing Award for the Down Payment Assistance Program. To date, the program helped over 1,800 families realize their dreams of homeownership. She also worked with the City of Ft. Lauderdale and the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, where she developed the division’s first audit program. In an earlier position at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Tampa, she organized senior, youth, and children groups plus family activities. Her youth staffing work with the Florida Synod of the Lutheran Church in America supported youth ministries in 120 congregations in Florida.
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City Wildfire Report Good Starting Point, But Overlooks Missteps with Vulnerable Populations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 25, 2008
SAN DIEGO – As it did in the midst of the immediate aftermath of the firestorms of October 2007, the /category/news-events” target=”_blank”>28-page report published one week after the fires, the ACLU, the Immigrant Rights Consortium, and Justice Overcoming Boundaries provided details of scores of instances in which Latinos, immigrants, low-income and homeless people were denied entry, forced to leave shelters, scared away, or, in one case, detained and deported. In a situation where people’s safety and security should be paramount, it is vital that all victims be afforded access to life-saving assistance without fear of apprehension, inspection, or disparate treatment.
“Frankly, we’re concerned that little or no attention was paid to the mistreatment of immigrants and other vulnerable populations,” said Andrea Guerrero, ACLU’s Field & Policy Director. “The report should have acknowledged these lapses of services and designed ways to ensure that they don’t happen again. We think the problems are fixable if officials do not ignore them.”
The city and county also tout the reverse-911 phoning system to warn potential victims of approaching fires. The system did work very well unless the residents did not speak English. Additionally, there were too few people in official capacities who could speak languages other than English. It is critical that this language issue be addressed before the next disaster strikes.
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The Way She Looked the Day She Died: Vernacular Photography, Memory, & Death
Focusing on a private photographic memorial album held at the University of Colorado Boulder (UCB), this paper explores the relationship between photography, death, memory, and time in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century memorial photography. To date, what little research exists on memorial photography has dealt almost exclusively with single images rather than albums. In contrast, this paper focuses on how memorial photography functions in an album format, with particular attention paid to the implicit narrative of these albums. In the case of the UCB album, image sequencing and the combination of image and text work together to enact a private mourning ritual and narrative, one in which photography serves to fix forever the deceased in an image of youthful innocence and beauty. | <urn:uuid:2bf2200d-d926-4e26-bb1d-9f89a471dcc7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://journals.tdl.org/add/index.php/add/article/view/7043 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935591 | 160 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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Beyond the New Deal
We might wonder why no Democratic Party contender for the presidency has invoked the memory of the New Deal and its unprecedented series of laws aimed at helping people in need. The New Deal was tentative, cautious, bold enough to shake the pillars of the system but not to replace them. It created many jobs but left 9 million unemployed. It built public housing but not nearly enough. It helped large commercial farmers but not tenant farmers. Excluded from its programs were the poorest of the poor, especially blacks. As farm laborers, migrants or domestic workers, they didn't qualify for unemployment insurance, a minimum wage, Social Security or farm subsidies.
Still, in today's climate of endless war and uncontrolled greed, drawing upon the heritage of the 1930s would be a huge step forward. Perhaps the momentum of such a project could carry the nation past the limits of FDR's reforms, especially if there were a popular upsurge that demanded it. A candidate who points to the New Deal as a model for innovative legislation would be drawing on the huge reputation Franklin Roosevelt and his policies enjoy in this country, an admiration matched by no President since Lincoln. Imagine the response a Democratic candidate would get from the electorate if he or she spoke as follows:
"Our nation is in crisis, just as it was when Roosevelt took office. At that time, people desperately needed help, they needed jobs, decent housing, protection in old age. They needed to know that the government was for them and not just for the wealthy classes. This is what the American people need today.
"I will do what the New Deal did, to make up for the failure of the market system. It put millions of people to work through the Works Progress Administration, at all kinds of jobs, from building schools, hospitals, playgrounds, to repairing streets and bridges, to writing symphonies and painting murals and putting on plays. We can do that today for workers displaced by closed factories, for professionals downsized by a failed economy, for families needing two or three incomes to survive, for writers and musicians and other artists who struggle for security.
"The New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps at its peak employed 500,000 young people. They lived in camps, planted millions of trees, reclaimed millions of acres of land, built 97,000 miles of fire roads, protected natural habitats, restocked fish and gave emergency help to people threatened by floods.
"We can do that today, by bringing our soldiers home from war and from the military bases we have in 130 countries. We will recruit young people not to fight but to clean up our lakes and rivers, build homes for people in need, make our cities beautiful, be ready to help with disasters like Katrina. The military is having a hard time recruiting young men and women for war, and with good reason. We will have no such problem enlisting the young to build rather than destroy.
"We can learn from the Social Security program and the GI Bill of Rights, which were efficient government programs, doing for older people and for veterans what private enterprise could not do. We can go beyond the New Deal, extending the principle of social security to health security with a totally free government-run health system. We can extend the GI Bill of Rights to a Civilian Bill of Rights, offering free higher education for all.
"We will have trillions of dollars to pay for these programs if we do two things: if we concentrate our taxes on the richest 1 percent of the population, not only their incomes but their accumulated wealth, and if we downsize our gigantic military machine, declaring ourselves a peaceful nation.
"We will not pay attention to those who complain that this is 'big government.' We have seen big government used for war and to give benefits to the wealthy. We will use big government for the people."
How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal and defied the corporate elite as Roosevelt did, on the eve of his 1936 re-election. Referring to the determination of the wealthy classes to defeat him, he told a huge crowd at Madison Square Garden: "They are unanimous in their hatred for me--and I welcome their hatred." I believe that a candidate who showed such boldness would win a smashing victory at the polls.
The innovations of the New Deal were fueled by the militant demands for change that swept the country as FDR began his presidency: the tenants' groups; the Unemployed Councils; the millions on strike on the West Coast, in the Midwest and the South; the disruptive actions of desperate people seeking food, housing, jobs--the turmoil threatening the foundations of American capitalism. We will need a similar mobilization of citizens today, to unmoor from corporate control whoever becomes President. To match the New Deal, to go beyond it, is an idea whose time has come.
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“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”
A Family Integrated Church
Our church is a Family Integrated church. This means that our families worship together and we do not have any systematic age segregation. And there is a good reason for this.
Churches like ours come in all shapes, sizes and varieties. There are FICs in virtually every denomination and in most sections of the country. Singles, students, single-parent families, retired adults, and traditional families all find a home in an age-integrated church.
We believe that God is looking for “new” wineskins to fill afresh with His Spirit in these last days. And one of the major obstacles between where His church is now and where we believe His Spirit is moving are the walls we erect between each other and between our obedience and the moving of the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, we strive to remove any walls or hindrances that stand between what we are and what He wants us to be.
Hence, our name, The Church Without Walls.
What We Believe and Teach
We know this section may seem long and tedious– but we believe that it is extremely important, probably the most important part of this site. Why? Well, in order for each of us to know where we belong within the body of Christ, we feel it is imperative to fully understand what the church we choose to covenant and associate with believes and teaches.
Remember, a house can stand only as strong as its foundation. And we want to be completely clear as to what our foundation rests upon.
We Are Like An
An Underground Church
The Church Without Walls is like an underground church— underground in the sense that it resembles a tree. Let me elaborate.
An underground church is like a tree: its trunk, branches and leaves (the visible part) are only about half of the picture. The unnoticed half, the underground root system, nourishes the whole tree and keeps it healthy.
Thus, the Church Without Walls is like an underground church.
This underground church consists of believers gathered together through a structure of small cell groups meeting in homes to pray, evangelize and build relationships with one another. In this way, each and every believer is made an active and vital part of the body of Christ.
When every believer is nourished and healthy, the whole church is strong. Just as water and nutrients feed the tree by climbing up through the root system, so the church is also nourished and strengthened by what happens in the underground (the unseen) realm of church life— believers involved in home cell groups. Therefore, we believe that meeting together in homes and experiencing relationships in cell group life is just as important as meeting together (visible) each week in a larger gathering to worship and to receive teaching from the Word of God.
If you would like to know more about a cell church, just keep reading…
Something About Us
My name is Steve McCranie and I’m the pastor of this wonderful church with the strange name: The Church Without Walls. We’re a family of Believers who love the Lord Jesus with all our being but are somewhat unsure about the church of today, the American church, the denominational church we all grew up in.
We’re looking to experience and embrace the Lord Jesus Christ with total abandon and radical faith. In other words, we don’t want to settle for the comfortable or the status quo. We want to know Christ, “the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor. 1:24).
Come join with us. It should be a wild ride!
To find out more about us and what we believe and value, just keep reading…
Locations and Service Times
Celebration Service at the Shepherding Center
2502 Crowders Creek Road
Gastonia, NC 28052
Bible Study at the Pendergrass Barn
2742 Bush Road
Clover, SC 29710
Young Married Men’s Bible Study at the Shepherding Center
Youth Led Bible Study at the Shepherding Center
Young Mother’s Bible Study at the Shepherding Center
Young Men’s Bible Study at the Pendergrass Barn
The Shepherding Center
The Shepherding Center
The Shepherding Center
Some Frequently Asked Questions
What are your Sunday services like?
We begin our Sunday Celebration Service at 10:30 and it usually runs until about noon. Our Sunday service is a combination of worship in songs and in the study of God’s Word, prayer, fellowship and Scripture memorization. We try to model our services after Acts 2:42 where the early church “continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.” Dress is very casual and the setting is informal. The preaching is expositional where our pastor goes through a book of the Bible, verse by verse, week by week. Since we are a Family Integrated Church (FIC) our children sit with their parents in our worship service. We do not provide, by design, Sunday School, a nursery, or a children’s church for our young ones. To find out more about a Family Integrated Church, just keep reading…
Can you tell me about the type of music you have on Sunday?
Our music is a combination of some contemporary praise songs and some great, classic hymns of the faith. For example, over the last few weeks we have sung as a congregation:
All the People Said, Amen
Children of God
Great is Thy Faithfulness
How Deep the Father’s Love For Us
In Christ Alone
Our Great God
This is Amazing Grace
Wonderful, Merciful Savior
You Are God Alone
Your Great Name
Hopefully this will give you an idea of the type or style of worship music we sing. But remember, for us, content, meaning and doctrine is far more important than style in the music we choose to praise our Lord with.
What translation of the Bible do you use?
As a church, we use the New King James Version (NKJV) of the Bible.
What does your name mean?
We get asked that question a lot. And I mean, a lot! Most of the time people think a church named, The Church Without Walls must meet outside, under the stars. People say, with a smile on their face, “Doesn’t it get cold in the winter, you know, going to a church without any walls?” Well, not exactly.
We call ourselves the Church Without Walls for a very specific reason. And it has to do with what we see as God’s purpose for His church. In fact, we’d love to tell you more about it.
To find out more about the meaning of our church name, just keep reading…
What do you believe and teach?
We have a rather long and detailed Statement of Beliefs that we encourage you to take your time and read. Why? Because correct doctrine is extremely important to us and we don’t want to downplay it like some do by hiding behind statements such as:
We believe in God and we believe in you.
Therefore, you’ll find our Statement of Beliefs quite thorough. And this is by design. We want them to be that way.
To discover what we believe and teach, just keep reading…
What's a Family Integrated Church?
Ah, that’s another question we get asked all the time. What is a Family Integrated Church? Or, why don’t you have a nursery? Or, where is Children’s Church? Or, why are all these young kids sitting with their parents in church?
Why? Because we’ve designed it that way. That’s what a Family Integrated Church looks like on the outside.
Do you want to know why we do church this way? Good. I’m glad. Then to find out more about a Family Integrated Church, just keep reading…
Can you tell me what are your goals and vision as a church?
Absolutely. In fact, you can read all about our goals, vision and mission as a church. To find out more, just keep reading…
Can you tell me more about a cell church?
Sure. We have an entire page devoted to explaining what a cell church is and how you and your family can fit right in. To find out more, just keep reading…
How can I get in touch with your pastor?
You can reach our pastor, Steve McCranie, at firstname.lastname@example.org or by calling him, day or night, on his cell phone at 704-634-9452. He’s always available to answer your questions, pray with you, counsel with you, or just to talk.
You can also find out more about our pastor at his blog, Leaving Laodicea.
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2016.02.09 fat reader
Whether a person has a few extra pounds to drop or whether considering a long-term project to peel off multiple layers, there are some relatively easy steps that can help. And if you’re a member of that new, trendy demographic known as “skinny fat,” these can show results in a matter of days.
It’s helpful to remember what purpose fat serves in the body. Of course it’s an accessible source of energy in times when the body needs it. Importantly to modern man, though, is that fat is a place the body likes to store toxins that are damaging to the body or otherwise vexing. When the body encounters anything that enters it through the food path, it does its best to analyze the substance against a frame of reference developed by thousands of years of evolution. The body knows what to do with a green bean, an apple, oats or nuts; it’s had thousands of years to design a method of metabolizing those. But toss a Dorito with artificial coloring, synthetic flavoring or even something called “high fructose corn syrup,” and you’re asking the body to digest something that evolution has not prepared it for: an unnatural chemical only a few decades in existence.
When faced with a potentially dangerous substance that it cannot break down or eliminate in other ways, the body wants to keep that outlier as far away from important organs and muscles as possible. You don’t want some sleeper poison lurking in the heart or lungs or nerves. So the body, in its infinite wisdom, parks those toxins in the hinterlands of the body, tucked away in fat cells. So, do these Six.
Diet Drop. It’s like a mic drop only you won’t break anything. First thing to bag is the booze. Alcohol has more calories than anything else you put in your mouth except pure fat. More importantly, it taxes the liver and delivers toxins that need fat for storage. More toxins equal more fat. When you ban the brew, vacate the vodka and veto the vino, you’ll notice results within days. Then, beat the meat habit. You don’t need it if you eat otherwise healthfully. Skip the sugar. Just do it. And finally, dump the dairy. Wipe those things out of the diet and you’ve removed some of the least nutritious, most caloric foods from the diet. In moderate amounts, meat and dairy (fermented and aged) can be reintroduced later. Yeah, and hold your cards and letters: meat and dairy have some trace nutrition. But they are way out of balance in the calorie/nutrient ratio. In fact, modern milk ruins most of the nutrients by pasteurization and homogenization. I wouldn’t touch it, myself.
Dump Diet Soda and “Lite” Foods. Hey, check it out in the check out line: Is it coincidence that people buying “diet” soda look heavier? Chemicals like artificial sweeteners are completely foreign to the human body. They haven’t been around long enough for evolution to teach our body what to do with them. The result is that the body has to shunt them off somewhere and that somewhere is into fat cells. The more chemicals the more fat is needed to store them, plain and simple. And “Lite” foods end up being anything but when you count the artificial stuff in them. Often cane sugar is replaced with chemicals and they are enhanced with other dubious additives to replace the fat.
Drive By not Thru. No question about this no-no. To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, “There is no food there.” Look, there is no excuse for buying or eating food from McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, and all the others. Certainly not the complaint, “I don’t have time,” or “I’m hungry.” Both those are lies. Each of us has the same 24 hours in a day. Hunger means your body needs food, not a “food-like substance.” Might as well fill up on cardboard soaked in Crisco. It’s high calorie, low nutrition. Carry some bananas or fruit or nuts with you to eat until you can get a proper meal. Fat will disappear when you keep Chick-fil-A in the rear view mirror. (Think about it. How healthy can a food chain founded in Georgia be?)
De-stress. We all know stress kills. But before it kills, it makes us fat. Think about how Homo sapiens works. The body is designed to do things to help us survive. A caveman, when stressed by a life-threatening event — like being chased by a predator or days without food — will store calories in the way of fat. Modern man feels stress, too. But running late to an appointment or working on a late-night term paper are not life threatening. Still, a hormone, cortisol, is released during those times, telling the body to store fat. Good idea if you’re a caveman running through the jungle. Bad idea if your stress consists of sitting at a red light. So to de-stress, learn a real, honest-to-goodness technique to lower stress. The best is a legitimate form of meditation. De-stress, weigh less.
De-drug. Hate to break the news but 70 percent of Americans are on one or more prescription drugs. Guess what? A common side effect of pharmaceutical drugs is major disruption of bodily functions and can result in weight gain. Uh-huh. You may have noticed. So, get with the drug dealer, er, doctor, who got you on the drugs and get off them with guidance. They owe you that much.
Detox. There are some simple, non-radical ways to help the body with the task of eliminating toxins. Whatever method one selects, it shouldn’t put unnecessary burden on the body. This means choosing a detox program that doesn’t involve crazy diets, ridiculous supplement concoctions or other outlandish means. Remember, the imbalance in the body was caused by introducing unnatural substances in the first place. You can’t solve a problem by using the same techniques that caused it. Check out www.HeartlandHealing.com/detox to learn about one type. Meanwhile, keep it simple, doable and real.
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Although over the long run we believe the precious metals will rise much higher in price, we are cautious over the shorter timeframe. This article will serve to illustrate one of the primary reasons for this caution. It is periodically important for physical precious metals investors to pay attention to another aspect of the gold market. The gold mining sector. We are not necessarily recommending that individuals invest in a gold miner. As the industry is filled with challenges including finding ore deposits, proving the grade of the deposit, and securing permitting for building the mine. The price of gold for coins and bars faces none of these challenges.
However, even if an individual has no desire to invest in the companies which dig gold out of the ground, there are still reasons to pay attention to what is happening on this other side of the market. One of the most important reasons why is to observe what the sector is pricing in as per gold valuation.
Gold Miners vs. Gold Price
There should be some observable relationship between the price of gold itself and the valuations of the companies that extract gold from the ground. After all, the miners’ profits (or lack thereof) are largely dependent on the price of gold. These profits are generally factored into equity valuations that investors assign to the company shares.
In essence, what we are saying is that when gold is moving higher, so should the share prices of gold mining companies, and vice versa. Thus, anytime there is a significant discrepancy in this relationship, it merits attention.
Below we show the HUI gold miners index, which is an average valuation of the 23 largest gold producers in the world which do not hedge their production. The index is shown on top, with the price of gold plotted immediately below it, since late-2015:
Note how the gold mining complex, which closed at 168 for the week on the index, would still need to raise some 65% to reach its 2016 peak near 280.
Meanwhile, the price of gold, which closed at $1,318, would only need to rise by 5% to reach its related 2016 peak of $1,378.
What is causing this discrepancy between the valuation of the gold miners and the price of gold itself?
While certainly, any individual gold miner could be having problems with ore purity, gold output, or mine financing, what we see above is an average of the sum of the gold mining industry. Not one single company.
It appears – in total – that gold mining investors do not believe that the price of gold is going to stay where it is in the future. If we study the relationship between the two sides of the industry dating back to late-2015, the gold miners are pricing in something closer to low $1,200 gold rather than low $1,300.
Could the sum of gold mining investors simply be wrong in their valuation models on gold prices?
Certainly. And there are examples of the miners being wrong throughout history.
However, such is rare. It is even more rare to observe the discrepancy happen over multi-year periods such as from 2016 through the present.
What to Make of this Divergence?
We simply want to caution gold investors that the mining sector is not pricing in $1,300 gold. But rather something closer to $1,200.
Should the miners be correct in their evaluations, there will be a better buying opportunity coming during the months ahead.
Stay tuned to these pages as we explore this process as the relationship unfolds.
BULLION EXCHANGES MARKET ANALYST
Christopher Aaron has been trading in the commodity and financial markets since the early 2000s. He began his career as an intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Christopher Aaron specializes in the creation and interpretation of pattern-of-life mapping in Afghanistan and Iraq. His strategy has helped his clients to identify both long-term market cycles and short-term opportunities for profit.
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Collingwood war memorials, then and now.
In the 1990s the two smaller memorials were moved to flank the main one, so they are now together in one group.
They consist of:
- Collingwood War Memorial (the large centre one in the picture above)
- Collingwood War Memorial Cross (left of picture) - This is a memorial to Captain Harry Bolton Riley, killed in action 1916. The memorial used to be located 100 metres further north, on the corner of Gibbs Road and Elizabeth Street, i.e. where it is shown on the photo elsewhere on the Register.
- The third memorial relates to the South African (Boer) War and is on the right-hand side of the picture. It is to Private Ralph Vincent James, killed 1900. It also was moved from the opposite corner of the intersection.
Four brothers, the children of Frederick John and Fanny Jane Harvey of Collingwood, all served in the same unit during the First World War. Three were killed during the war Charles Harvey (23/1661), Percy Harvey (7/209) and Frederick Harvey (6/3342). The other brother William Harvey (6/254), returned to New Zealand and died of wounds within a year. Read more about these brothers on Auckland Museum's Cenotaph database.
- See also an entry about this memorial on Te Papa's blog
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COUNTY SCHEDULES HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE DAYS
Wayne County is holding three household hazardous waste collection events, with the next one scheduled for Saturday in Belleville.
Belleville Household Hazardous Waste Collection: Saturday May 3, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wayne County Community College District Western Campus, 9555 Haggerty Road, Belleville.
Dearborn Household Hazardous Waste Collection: Saturday, June 28, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Henry Ford Community College, 5101 Evergreen Road, Dearborn.
Westland Household Hazardous Waste Collection: Saturday, August 16, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Westland Shopping Center lot behind JC Penney.
Items that are accepted include:
- household paints, stains, dyes
- floor care items, furniture polish, bathroom cleaners
- lawn and garden chemicals, pesticides, fertilizers
- antifreeze, motor oil, gasoline
- automotive batteries, dry cell batteries, propane tanks
- old computers, printers, scanners, TV’s, cell phones, fax machines
- mercury containing thermometers, thermostats and elemental mercury
- fluorescent light bulbs (standard and compact)
- smoke detectors, fire extinguishers
- Pharmaceutical Waste (Non –controlled Substances only)
Items that are not accepted:
- commerical waste, industrial waste
- ammunition, explosives
- 55-gallon drums
- radioactive materials
- unknown, unlabeled waste
- shock sensitive materials
- household trash
For a list of facilities that accept HHW year-round and for information on non-toxic alternatives, refer to the Wayne County Resource Recovery Guide.
Residents are encouraged to bring in mercury fever thermometers for disposal. Mercury is a toxic substance and can cause serious health effects if released into a home or the environment.
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Recently, a ChemWriter customer described an issue in which Internet Explorer would randomly report a browser crash when attempting to use the Copy from ChemDraw functionality. This article describes the technical solution to the problem, which is available in ChemWriter Releases 2.14.6 and higher.
On IE9 with a Java Plugin older than Version 7, the following dialog appears, stating "Internet Explorer has stopped working Windows is checking for a solution to the problem...":
If the system is allowed to run unattended, this dialog is often followed by another stating "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.":
It may or may not be possible to continue. Occasionally, IE notifies that the browser tab can not be recovered.
This issue does not affect legacy IE versions (i.e.: IE6; IE7; or IE8), nor does this issue affect users who do not attempt to paste structures from ChemDraw through the system clipboard.
For those unfamiliar with the changes in the browser landscape over the last year - Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is a very different beast from its predecessors. Whereas previous versions insisted on idiosyncratic behavior, IE9 reflects Microsoft's growing realization that Web developers follow the lead of W3C, not Redmond.
Although this change has been welcomed by Web developers everywhere, this new version of IE9 simply doesn't work the way the old IEs worked.
The differences are amply apparent in the problems many users are now reporting using older versions of the Java Plugin with IE9 (for example: link and link). Unfortunately, from many of the reports both the cause and solution to this issue remain unclear.
There were enough clues pointing to the combination of IE9 and Java 6 plugins (and possibly all previous Java versions) as being responsible for the reported system crashes.
My test environment showing the crash behavior was a Windows Vista 32-bit system running Internet Explorer 9 with Java Plugin 6u26, a Java 6 update that had been reported as a fix.
Upgrading to Java Plugin7u4 (the most recent version available at the time of writing) resolved the issue completely.
There is one additional problem in deploying Java applets on IE9 - the 'old' way no longer works the same. Specifically, previous applet deployments from ChemWriter had used Microsoft's idiosyncratic <object> tag using the classid attribute to specify a minimum java version.
IE9 now treats classid as the version of Java that must be present and prompts the user to install an older version, even if a newer one is present. Fortunately, IE9 now supports the use of the same <object> tag markup as all other browsers. Using this method eliminated the problem.
As a result, enabling ChemWriter to work with Java Plugin 7 on IE9 will require an update.
To easily test the new release of ChemWriter and its paste from ChemDraw functionality on your hardware/OS/Plugin combination, visit the ChemWriter homepage.
Interoperability between IE9 and older versions of the Java Plugin has been apparently broken, resulting in a mysterious "Internet Explorer has stopped working" error. This problem disappears with Version 7u4 of the Java Plugin. ChemWriter versions 12.14.6 and higher enable users to paste structures from ChemDraw on IE9 without receiving the error. | <urn:uuid:39efbd69-2592-4a87-9045-fad5a21a60a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://metamolecular.com/blog/2012/05/29/ie9-error-when-pasting-from-chemdraw-to-chemwriter-and-a-fix/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00437-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90257 | 691 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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Minnesota Department of Education: MDE leads the revision of social studies standards and provides support through a state social studies specialist.
Learning Law and Democracy Foundation: Learning Law and Democracy provides professional development and teaching materials for K-12 civics, government, and law education.
Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education: MAGE is a group of educators who advocate for geographic literacy. The organization provides resources for teachers, and opportunities for networking and experiences that motivate and inspire teachers.
Minnesota Council for Economic Education: The mission of the Minnesota Council is to provide is to provide Minnesotans with the economic and financial understanding they need to function effectively in a complex, global environment.
Minnesota Council for History Education: MNCHE seeks to promote and improve history instruction in Minnesota.
Minnesota Humanities Center: Through its many programs, the Minnesota Humanities Commission inspires people to learn, grow and give to their communities by providing leadership, resources and programs.
Minnesota International Center: MIC provides programs and opportunities for U.S. residents to serve as citizen diplomats and better understand their place in the world.
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President Barack Obama is urging the U.S. Senate to rafity the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia before the end of the legislative session.
President Obama says approving the New START treaty is an urgent national priority. "Ratifying a treaty like START is not about winning a victory for an administration or a political party. It is about the safety and security of the United States of America," he said.
The president again appealed for approval of START during his weekly address on Saturday.
Senators are expected to debate and vote on the treaty in the coming days, as their session ends.
Republicans who oppose ratifying the treaty are threatening amendments to the legislation to slow the process.
Mr. Obama reminded them that the previous nuclear arms treaty has expired, and that the U.S. is no longer able to verify Russia's nuclear arsenal. "Every minute we drag our feet is a minute that we have no inspectors on the ground at those Russian nuclear sites," he said.
The president also pointed out that failing to ratify START or delaying approval would undermine the improving U.S. ties with Russia. "Without a new treaty, we will risk turning back the progress we have made in our relationship with Russia, which is essential to enforce strong sanctions against Iran, secure vulnerable nuclear materials from terrorists, and resupply our troops in Afghanistan," he said.
Some Republican lawmakers say the treaty does not provide adequately for U.S. missile defense or the upgrading of the American nuclear arsenal.
The president says START has been under review by the Senate for seven months, and has gone through 18 hearings, with almost 1,000 questions asked and answered. He says it has the support of every living Republican former secretary of state, America's NATO allies, the U.S. military leadership and several Republican senators.
Mr. Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the New START treaty last April in Prague. The Russian Duma is expected to ratify the agreement after the U.S. Senate does.
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The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF Act) is designed to prevent criminals from using banks, financial institutions, and other businesses to hide their ill-gotten gains. The purpose of the Act is to stop criminals from using the financial system for criminal activity, such as drug trafficking and money laundering. In this article, we’ll look at the rules you need to follow and the measures you need to put in place to achieve compliance.
What do we mean by money laundering and terrorist financing?
Money laundering is the process of making illegally obtained money appear to have been gained through legal means. Terrorist financing is the process of making illegally obtained money look legitimate for the purpose of supporting terrorism.
What are the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF) Rules?
The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Rules are a set of legislative requirements that apply to reporting entities. They are contained in the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF Act). An overview of the AML/CTF rules and their key terms and concepts are set out in the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Rules Instrument 2007 (No. 1).
The AML/CTF rules in Australia impose a number of regulatory requirements including conducting customer due diligence checks (CDD) when onboarding new customers and monitoring customer accounts for suspicious activity that could be linked to money laundering. The AML/CTF rules also impose reporting obligations on financial institutions including Threshold Transaction Reports (TTR) and Suspicious Matter Reports (SMRs).
Onboarding and Monitoring
Reporting entities must carry out CDD and KYC checks when onboarding customers to verify each customer’s identity and establish the level of risk they present.
Ongoing monitoring must also be conducted to identify whether a customer’s risk profile has changed over time. Beyond identify verification, this should include:
- Politically Exposed Person (PEP) Screening: Checking whether a customer or beneficial owner is a politically exposed person and therefore at higher risk of money laundering.
- Adverse Media Screening: Monitoring news media for reports that might link customers to serious crimes such as money laundering, fraud, or drug trafficking.
Firms must also monitor accounts for suspicious activity such as:
- Transactions that involve an unusually large amount of money (AUD10,000 or more).
- Transactions that are complex have no clear purpose.
- Material changes in behaviour, for example, a sudden increase in deposit frequency.
- International funds transactions into and out of countries at a high risk of money laundering.
Reporting Suspicious Activity
The AML/CTF Act 2006 imposes reporting rules for the following types of activity:
Reporting threshold: When handling transactions of AUD10,000 or more (or an equivalent amount in foreign currency), firms must submit a Threshold Transaction Report (TTR) to AUSTRAC within 10 business days of the transaction date.
International funds transfers: When funds of any amount are transferred into or out of Australia, either electronically or via a designated remittance agreement, firms must submit an international funds transfer instruction report (IFTI) to AUSTRAC within 10 days of the transaction.
Suspicious matters: When customers engage in any kind of suspicious activity, firms must submit a suspicious matter report (SMR) to AUSTRAC within 72 hours of detecting the suspicious activity (or 24 hours if it relates to terrorism).
Cross border movement: When customers move physical currency in amounts of A$10,000 or more (or an equivalent amount of foreign currency) into or out of Australia, firms must submit a cross border movement (CBM) report within 5 business days to AUSTRAC.
When do the AML/CTF Rules apply to reporting entities?
The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Rules apply to all reporting entities. A reporting entity is any person that provides a designated service or any other person who carries out a service that has the characteristics of a designated service. The full list of designated services is outlined in the AML/CTF 2006 Act.
How do the AML/CTF Rules support compliance?
The AML/CTF Rules support compliance by providing a set of minimum standards to help reporting entities identify, assess, and mitigate money laundering and terrorist financing risks. They are designed to be flexible, allowing reporting entities to develop their own risk-based approach to compliance.
How OneAML Review Can Help You Comply With The AML Rules in Australia
The Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Rules are an important part of protecting the integrity of the Australian financial system. They also help protect the security of Australia’s community, economy, and international reputation.
If you’re a reporting entity that provides any designated services listed under section 6 of the AML/CTF Act 2006, it’s important that you understand what these rules mean for your business and how you can comply with them. As experienced AML/CTF consultancy experts, we can help you stay up-to-date on the latest rules and regulations, set up the right systems in place to detect suspicious activity, and navigate the complexities of the AML/CTF Act 2006 to make sure your business is compliant. | <urn:uuid:c3a3ff52-607d-491e-a4e0-e411c0bb4bb4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oneamlreview.com.au/2022/07/13/understanding-the-anti-money-laundering-and-counter-terrorist-financing-rules/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.928178 | 1,124 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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American playgrounds are boring — and not just because pushing a swing has a hypnotic effect. It’s because in the past few decades, the fear of litigation and ER visits turned the blacktop into safety foam. Seesaws and merry-go-rounds are banned! Grass is considered a ”dangerous surface!” And yes, there are “adventure” playgrounds out there with zip lines, trampolines, and rope bridges — but where’s the danger when you’re wearing a helmet?
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The idea of “risky” playgrounds is common in Europe, and one of the most celebrated is The Land, in Plas Madoc, Wales. It’s sometimes depicted as what would happen if The Warriors got their own Disney attraction. It’s the place where kids play with hammers, nails, fire, and other things OSHA would have a field day with. But, Claire Griffiths, AVOW Play Department Manager and designer of this intense outdoor space, says the benefits outweigh the perceived risks. Here’s why she thinks more kids need to be saying, “gimme danger.”
Risk Vs. Danger
Griffiths says parents need to first recognize the difference between what’s going to hurt kids, and what’s going to force them out of a comfort zone. Risk is good for kids. It allows them to test their limits, get a sense of how far they’re willing to go, and has neurological benefits. Danger is asking for a tetanus shot. “I think often people confuse risk with danger,” says Griffiths. “Risk is something children recognize — they know it when they see it, and they’re capable of managing it. Dangers are not obvious to the child. So exposed nails, or a rotten wood floor — these are dangers and the play space shouldn’t contain them.” (Of course, that’s a risk your kids took when they had you build it.)
Balance The Benefits With The Risk
The big point is not just to put kids in harm’s way, but to let them play with a nice helping of risk. Building a campfire? Good. Burning down the KOA? Bad. That’s why there are on-site supervisors at The Land, who aren’t there to interfere but to assist. Even before the kids go wild, the adults do the proper safety due diligence. “We do risk/benefit assessments for every activity. They’re really comprehensive documents — the one for fire, for instance, is 19 pages long,” says Griffiths. “We have a health and safety inspector who comes and writes reports. Normally, he deals with fire prevention, and we’re asking him to report on fire encouragement. It blows his mind a little bit, but he loves it.”
Yes, Your Preschooler Can Play
You’re aware that not all kids follow the same developmental schedule. Griffiths found that trying to impose age restrictions at The Land was counter-productive. “Originally it was age 5 and up, but what I’m finding is .. you can get a child who’s 3 and a child who’s 7, and the 3-year-old is much more competent and tougher than the 7-year-old. You’ve got to trust your judgement.”
Get The Parents Involved
If you want to build something like this in your community, it’s not the kids that will need convincing. Griffiths and her team did a lot of groundwork before building their playground. “We had nearly 8 years of play work in the community before we even created The Land. We’d load a car or van with what play workers call ‘loose parts’: wheels, gears, nuts and bolts, cardboard boxes — anything children can move or adapt,” she says.
Then they’d drop all of those Home Depot leftovers in the middle of town where kids had access to it. “Parents saw that wrapping them in cotton wool is not doing them any good. Children are resilient: they learn to roll with the punches.”
Collaboration Is Key
Let the kids take the lead on design (but make sure you follow). According to Griffiths, “The Land is co-created with the children. Whether it comes from play workers changing the environment after observing how the kids are using it, or the 2 of them doing it together. We call it modification. I think it’s exciting for the children when we change something before they arrive.”
That means no more bolted down twisty slides. No more cemented swing sets. Everything in The Land is modular. “None of it should be fixed,” says Griffiths, “it should be constantly evolving and changing as the children develop.” Throw a few 2x4s in the yard. There — you just built a playground.
Playgrounds Aren’t One-Size Fits All
That 20-foot tall treehouse with running water and Wi-Fi in your backyard is pretty cool. But does your preschooler appreciate it? “Sometimes you go to fixed playgrounds and they have these tall towers and structures, and to a little kid that can be overwhelming,” says Griffiths. In The Land she had kids build a “Shantytown.” It’s basically a bunch of donated wooden pallets that the kids build to suit them. For example, they’ll make tiny entrances and secret rooms that they can squeeze through, but grown-ups can’t. Or at least not without some Crisco and a crowbar.
It’s Meant To Be Crappy
Don’t buy things you don’t want to be scratched, dented, or engulfed in flames. “If a child comes to the playground and wants to destroy something, or take it apart, that’s fine. That’s as important as creating,” says Griffiths. “There’s nothing of monetary value here. Everything is donated, except for a couple of crash pads that we bought.” Like they say, one man’s trash is another man’s Sunday activity with his kids.
Don’t Worry About The Paint Job
Whatever your space ends up being, it’s going to look nothing like the multi-colored plastic and rubber foam Adventureland your town or school just spent a fortune on. It may end up being messy, muddy and even a little smelly. Hell, The Land looks like an abandoned junkyard surrounded by an 8-foot high fence. “The Land was originally a neglected piece of wasteland,” says Griffiths. “It’s not the most aesthetically pleasing space when you walk on to it. But it’s not our job to conform to that sense of order and tidiness, is it? Children come in and they get it. They know what to do.” | <urn:uuid:dfb3aa18-dce1-42b5-97a5-3566b8516530> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fatherly.com/parenting/land-adventure-playground-claire-griffiths | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958498 | 1,521 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Formation and Operation of Companies
In today’s business environment, there are a number of options when thinking of starting and operating a business, and one must decide on the type of organization to form. Available types of business entities include corporations, limited liability companies, general partnerships and limited partnerships. Corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships have the advantage of providing limited liability protection for the owners of the business (for limited partnerships, only the limited partners have such protection). A business may also be operated as a sole proprietorship, but that does not provide any limited liability protection for the owner of the business. Limited liability protection can shield the owners from a company’s debts and obligations. In other words, it can prevent people with claims against a company from forcing payment out of the personal assets of the company’s owners. When forming and operating a business, one must also consider the desired tax treatment for the entity. S corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships can provide pass through tax treatment and avoid the double taxation of income associated with C corporations. Tax ramifications should also be considered in connection with purchasing or selling either an ownership interest in a company or the assets of a company.
The operation of a business typically involves a wide variety of legal issues and a business will often face matters related to general corporate laws (such as establishing or changing the ownership and management of the business), securities laws (such as requirements for offering and selling ownership interests in the business), real estate laws (such as leasing or buying real property), tax laws (such as any taxes to be paid on the profits of the business or upon the sale of the business), intellectual property laws (including determining how best to develop and obtain protection for any intellectual property belonging to the business) and employment laws (including a company’s ability to terminate an employee and the rights of an employee before and after termination). Matt Sumrow has over fifteen years of experience advising numerous business owners on a broad range of issues affecting their businesses. Contact Orange County business attorney Matt Sumrow for further information. | <urn:uuid:5a00cc44-a741-4fdf-843c-de8da7364af5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sumrowlaw.com/formation-and-operation-of-companies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00572-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957027 | 416 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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Although credit history scores aren’t legally used by insurers in a few states, they’re nonetheless vital criteria when comparing vehicle coverage prices. In Hawaii, drivers with lousy credit rating pays 168% a lot more than comparable cleanse drivers. In Massachusetts, superior-possibility drivers spend thirty% a lot more than cleanse motorists. For brand new drivers, a DUI, dashing ticket, and bad credit rating will increase costs a lot more than Other people. You should definitely get a handful of offers prior to making a call.
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Auto insurance has risen by $50 – $one hundred in the final five years, as overall health care fees have already been escalating. Drivers also are necessary to have uninsured and PIP insurance policy, which might be over-ordinary point out specifications. Many states only need legal responsibility insurance plan, but New York calls for motorists to hold both equally. These optional coverages increase the cost of insurance policies, and may frequently boost the whole quality. And lastly, motorists should really Examine their protection limitations, as some procedures have a lower minimum amount number of protection than Some others.
In New York, the normal individual spends 2.eight % in their money on car insurance plan, that’s a little bit better when compared to the countrywide ordinary of 2.40 p.c. Men and women of their 30s, 40s, and 50s will pay somewhat below the common. The 70+ age group pays increased rates than motorists with fewer driving knowledge. Those people who are married can pay somewhat higher premiums, but nevertheless decrease than one individuals.
In addition to reduce premiums, motorists could also just take defensive driving classes. These lessons are 320 minutes in length, and involve conversations of driver Mindset and visitors regulations. In addition they instruct defensive driving approaches that will considerably reduce the expense of insurance policy. They also can support to improve their driving document, so finishing a program can decreased the price of a car or truck insurance plan quote. Having said that, should you be Not sure about the precise protection you’ll need, you may Check out with the Insurance Facts Institute.
While fuel selling prices range by condition, the cost of a car or truck insurance coverage quote in other states could possibly be greater or decrease than your very own. Some aspects may perhaps account for this, including The share of uninsured motorists, point out insurance policy regulations, and the speed of theft. Also, the incidence of bad weather can adjust the expense of insurance policy in several states. The subsequent table reveals normal auto insurance coverage premiums in various states. These estimates are according to a comparison of state insurance policies requirements.
Missouri is the cheapest condition for complete-coverage car coverage, paying out just $944 under Louisiana. On top of that, this condition has one of the lowest fees for every capita, and is ranked fifth with regards to price of living. In contrast, Texas motorists shell out essentially the most for their car insurance plan, spending as much as 33% in their yearly cash flow in total. This disparity could be on account of The truth that the state incorporates a higher variety of uninsured drivers and a lot of lawsuits.
The national average for total coverage auto insurance policies is $1,771 a 12 months. The state with the costliest coverage premium is Louisiana, by using a premium of $2,839, a 19% raise from 2020. Conversely, Maine’s ordinary insurance plan quality is just $858. It is because no-fault states have bigger insurance policies premiums. The expense of a vehicle insurance policy policy in other states can vary drastically. There are many things to think about, like your condition’s legal guidelines on insurance coverage.
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Though the countrywide averages for top-hazard driver auto coverage close to me are pretty regular, you will see that premiums range wildly from point out to point out. Some companies change their rates to distinct states, so if you live in a specific condition, you could possibly discover that 1 insurer provides you the most effective coverage for your lower price tag. The most affordable substantial-chance driver car insurance policies around me originates from Point out Farm, that has a lengthy-standing track record for delivering exceptional service.
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"If you don't have good muscle, you don't have good health." It's hard to argue with advice from David Marshall aka The Bodydoctor, who is the trainer to the stars and is responsible for getting Kate Moss, Sophie Dahl, Lily Allen and Rachel Weisz in shape.
Every so often the fitness world gets a new darling to rave on about - last year it was the importance of resistance training, and while that is still the favourite among personal trainers, this year the spotlight is on weights.
Specifically the importance of doing them, and what part they have to play in losing weight, getting toned or simply getting strong.
Celebrity trainer and former UK's Strongest ManRob Blakeman says: "Only weight training will improve your shape and give you that Hollywood style tight biceps and buns. All the aerobics and calisthenics in the world may improve your cardiovascular system and increase flexibility, they may even help burn a few pounds off but if you start out as a pear shape you’ll end up a slightly smaller pear shape. New, improved curves will only come with progressive and intense weight training."
Ladies, this one is for you too - as we've heard the lament go round the office about the fear of getting bulky. Nia Shanks on her website sums this up perfectly: "the true culprit that gives a woman a bulky appearance is excess body fat. Period."
How often should I work out?
Similarly, Women's Health reported: "A recent study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham compared dieters who lifted three times a week with those who did aerobic exercise for the same amount of time. Both groups ate the same number of calories, and both lost the same amount—26 pounds—but the lifters lost pure chubb, while about 8 percent of the aerobicisers' drop came from valuable muscle. Researchers have also found that lifting weights is better than cardio at whittling intra-abdominal fat—the Buddha-belly kind that's associated with diseases from diabetes to cancer."
We asked the experts about the best reasons to do weights. Here's what they had to say:
The more lean muscle you have, the more fat you burn - especially if you are exercising at the right intensity.
David Marshall says: If you want to burn fat and you want to get to your destination, you need to use your muscles to push, pull and stretch. When people just do cardio – invariably they go out running - they just send shockwaves through the body. Your heart doesn’t differentiate whether it’s beating however many times a minute – it just understands there is a demand for oxygen and blood.
More energy, better posture
"These are the changes you and everyone else will notice," says Rob. "Loads more energy, improved posture, more strength, (as opposed to more muscle wastage) better pain-free joint movement, fewer colds and flu, better recovery, less stress (because you now have a real workout to channel it through!) less tiredness and greater concentration. The longer you continue your regime change, the more profound and noticeable the improvements."
Muscle training prevents osteoporosis
Weight training helps protect your bones and prevent against fractures. David says: "For the purposes of general health, resistance work does the trick every time. You have to do a full body workout and expand it without hitting your body with stress factors."
It protects against injuries
Caroline Ciavaldini, world class athlete and North Face athlete says: "While climbing you always work on your biceps, much less the antagonist muscle, which could lead to a disbalance, and injuries. Doing weights is a protection against injuries."
It helps with anti-ageing
"Building new lean muscle tissue is the ultimate in anti-ageing," says Rob. "It will also reduce drastically the chances of serious illness such as Heart Attacks and Strokes if performed regularly and consistently."
It's great for relaxing
"As much as I love climbing because of its complexity, it is sometimes enjoyable to go to the gym to just make very simple exercises, like weight lifting," says Caroline. "It's a little holiday for your brain!"
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Info about Niemcza, Województwo Dolnośląskie (Poland)
Niemcza is a place in Województwo Dolnośląskie, Powiat dzierżoniowski, with country Poland (PL).
Niemcza names are also Nemca, Nemcha, Niemcz, Niemcza, Nimptsch, Njemcha, nie mu qia, Ņemča, Њемча, Немча, 涅姆恰, its latitude is 50.7200700, and longitude is 16.8357300.
In Niemcza are settled 3.104 natives, its timezone is Europe/Warsaw (Europe/Warsaw_cet).
If you travel to Niemcza you can enjoy wellness, hammam, spa, nature reserves, wildlife around Poland.
More details about Niemcza in Poland (PL)
It is the capital of Gmina Niemcza.
It has timezone UTC+01:00 (for standard time).
In Niemcza live 3.104 natives, if we consider 2014 last census. Niemcza zip code is 58-230, for this reason, for post delivery on your travel this can be done by using 58-230 zip code as per description above.
Its square area is 19 sq. kilometers, so it seems to be nicely relaxing area an ideal solution for people that are searching for small destinations as a quiet location to sleep, an incredibly quite city without distractions typical of big metropolis. Here you save money due to its low housing prices, so for this reason you and your friends can use Niemcza like base in order to visit all Poland or Niemcza near adventures.
Niemcza height above mean sea level, also called meters above mean sea level (MAMSL), is over 0 meters. That is why this is a perfect travel destination if you and your partner love beaches and sea.
If you want detailed information for this city you can have a look at Niemcza official webpage http://www.um.niemcza.pl/.
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